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Even changing the times in conversations to a format with less (changing) data, wouldn't help too much, as there are other parts of pages that are generated per user which would still prevent caching.

spelugx

I am aware of the fact that it just lowers the calculation load by a very little bit, but for 1000 hits per second it does make a difference.

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If it really is that great a load, it could easily be moved from the prensentation servers to the database servers. Small integer calculations and table lookups for this kind of thing really aren't expensive when you've got a whole DOM tree in memory and are processing it with XSLT. 'Premature optimisation' is something to be avoided on a tight time schedule.

spelugx

Firstly, you have been messing around with useless guideml in that article, so i have to scroll horizontally, this is a very bad thing, so please fix it.

Secondly, i belive that at the moment, the calculations are done on the db server and will be very quick, there are no database requests at all for that, and it's them which slow things down.

On the other hand, i have never liked the fact that you can't tell when something was posted exactly, so i would like to have the absolute date there including the exact time, and the relative time after it in brackets or something.

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