Re: comments plugin...slow?

will guaraldi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 18 May 2004, gabor wrote:
>
> i've timed the execution speed of pyblosxom on my blog...
>
> at the beginning it took around 0.3seconds to display the page
>
> then i installed the textile plugin, and it went up to 1.0seconds
>
> after that i installed the comments plugin, and now it's around
> 1.9seconds...
>
> i can understand that textile needs time to load..but why takes it
> sooooooo long for the comments plugin? on the main page (which i tested)
> there is nothing that is generated by the comments plugin...

Ahh but the comments plugin generates a $num_comments variable for every
entry that gets displayed.  In order to do this, it has to parse all the
comments for that entry.  So even if you don't use the $num_comments
variable, it's there and the comments plugin generates it.

/will


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