Re: Idea of pregenerating notes

> Hello! Hi, > Based on the idea of Goba, i did some measurement on user notes. > > Goba's idea is: > We can save resources if we pregenerate formatted notes, > and stores that content instead the raw notes. At this > time every note requires a preg_replace, and a highlight_php() > filter. If we move clean_note() from phpweb to rsync.php.net's > update-user-notes, we can store pregenerated notes. > > Bat these savings comes with user notes size growing. > I made a little script to demonstrate this size difference. > It can be checked at: http://phphost.hu/notes/ > > At this time, modified notes requires about 85% more diskspace > (~6.5 MB). This size difference can be increase if more > notes gets colorized. > > So, the question is: what is better... > > - Leave everything uncanged, and let PHP to do modifications > (preg_replace, highlighting) on the fly. > - Change update-user-notes to send pregenerated notes to > mirrors, and save processor resources on all the > phpweb mirrors. -1 for using pre-generated notes. Next time we want to change the layout of the notes, what will we do ? let PHP work on fly ;) didou