I'd like to know something more about template parsing/caching for performance issues.
My question is: when a template is called, it's wikicode, I suppose, is parsed and translated into "something running" - I can't imagine what precisely, but I don't care so much about (so far :-) ). If a second call comes to the server for the same template, but with different parameters, the template is parsed again from scratch or something from previous parsing is used again, so saving a little bit of server load? If the reply is "yes", t.i. if the "running code" of the whole template is somehow saved and cached, ready to be used again with new parameters, perhaps it could be a good idea to build templates as "librares of different templates", using the name of the template as a "library name" and a parameter as the name of "specific function"; a simple #switch could be used to use the appropriate code of that "specific function". On the contrary, if nothing is saved, there would be good reasons to keep the template code as simple as possible, and this idea of "libraries" would be a bad one. Alex _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
