Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM, soxred93 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just butting in here, if I recall correctly, both the PHP-native >> mb_strlen() and the MediaWiki fallback mb_strlen() functions are >> considerably slower (1.5 to 5 times as slow). >> > > They only have to be run once, when the revision is saved. It's not > likely to be a noticeable cost. > Yup, though we might as well remember that not everyone has mb_ functions installed. MediaWiki is intended to be functional both with, and without mb_ functions. That's another point towards storing both and falling back to bytes when the char field isn't populated.
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