On 9 April 2014 18:08, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course this thread isnt supposed to be about if its a good idea to > increase the size, so far everyone is agreement on that front. The issue > is > whether doing so would kill swift due to a large increase in object count > (or some other performance concern(?)) as has appearantly been suggested. > > Im not sure it would actually increase the object count that much, if the > new size chosen was a multiple of the old (as was suggested on wikipedia) > since that size will already probably be rendered for retina display. Also > we added the whole retina display srcset feature without the world > exploding, and i think that was orders of magnitude bigger change than this > would be. Ill admit im not actually familar with what the performance > issues are, and may have just said something totally irrelavent. >
I can't see how enabling a size that's already enabled in production on a further wiki will significantly increase the object count, but removing all sizes except one will definitely reduce it. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
