RE: comments plugin...slow?

> On Tue, 18 May 2004, gabor wrote:
> > 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.

But the comments plugin could be changed to only generate the
data for that variable when requested, like most of the other
plugins do...  (It won't help if you use the $num_comments
variable, but it should be faster if you don't, and it's
probably a good thing to do, just in case other people use
it as the basis for new plugins.)

Hey Gabor, do you know Python?  Do you want to learn?  The
changes that need to be made are fairly easy, and come with
a lot of samples to guide you.

Later,
Blake.



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