On 23/07/13 15:23, Erik Moeller wrote: > Editing this page in Firefox on a 6-year-old system only slightly > faster than the tester's specs today takes about 5 seconds to > initialize. In Chrome it takes about 3 seconds, in the ballpark of > reloading the page into the source editor. Note that Gabriel put major > caching improvements into production around June 7, which may not have > been in effect for this user / this page yet.
I tried editing [[Argentina]] on my laptop just now, it took 45 seconds of CPU time and 51 seconds of wall clock time before the percentage CPU usage began to drop. It's pretty slow. > Still, I think that the hypothesis that any actual negative impact of > VE on new users is due to performance issues is very supportable. > Performance is the single biggest issue overall for VE right now, and > performance on long pages can absolutely be prohibitively poor. > Improving it is the highest priority for the team. Is there any estimate as to how much development time it might take to improve performance by an order of magnitude or so, as seems to be required? -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
