On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using more and more #switch into templates, it's surprising how many > issues it can solve, and how much large arrays it can manage. My questions > are: > 1. Is there a reasonable upper limit for the number of #switch options? > 2. Is there a difference in server load between a long list of #switch > options and a "tree" of options t.i. something as a nested #switch? > 3. Is there any drawback into a large use of #swtch-based templates? > I can at least tell you that the answer to #1 is probably no, and the answer to #3 is yes. There were some server issues last week that were blamed on ocwiki's use of templates with #switch statements with thousands of options. For instance, https://oc.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8l:Altmejcom&action=edit has 36,611 cases, because it's essentially used as a database. That's the kind of thing that takes forever to parse.
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