On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Paul Copperman <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/4/5 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>: >> For comparison: WYSIFTW parses [[Barak Obama]] in 3.5 sec on my iMac, >> and in 4.4 sec on my MacBook (both Chrome 12). >> >> Yes, it doesn't do template/variable replacing, and it's probably full >> of corner cases that break; OTOH, it's JavaScript running in a >> browser, which should make it much slower than a dedicated server >> setup running precompiled PHP. >> > > Seriously, the bulk of the time needed to parse these enwiki articles > is for template expansion. If you pre-expand them, taking care that > also the templates in <ref>...</ref> tags get expanded, MediaWiki can > parse the article in a few seconds, 3-4 on my laptop.
So is the time spent with the actual expansion (replacing variables), or getting the wikitext for n-depth template recursion? Or is it the parser functions? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
