Ori Livneh wrote: > On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: >> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: >>> One obvious target for converting to Lua would be the Cite template. >>> It would be really great to take an article with a long parse time >>> (e.g. the "Barack Obama" or "The Beatles"), import it to test2, and >>> try to get the parse time down to something reasonable simply by >>> converting the Cite+other key templates to Lua. >> >> Template:Cite is terrifyingly complex. What are some other key templates? >> >> There must be others like me who want the fame and fortune of being an early >> adopter, without all that the hard work :) > > To answer my own question: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Templates_transcluded > _on_the_most_pages
Templates that are transcluded a lot usually are not the most complex or the most interesting. As I understand it, brace substitution and recursion depth were/are the big performance killers with ParserFunctions. I could swear that you used to be able to profile Parser::BraceSubstitution or something similar directly with a ?forceprofile=true or ?forcetrace=true URL parameter, but it doesn't seem to be working now. (?forceprofile=true still outputs an HTML comment with some profiling information; ?forcetrace=true seems to do nothing.) I believe Tim has created or plans to create better profiling tools for templates. I have no idea what the status of that is. If you're looking for other nerdy/fun templates to convert, the chess templates come to mind. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
