vorticity Wrote:Okay, fine, a hash table lookup, not a db lookup. Or perhaps a cache lookup. But the software needs to look for each link anyway, so checking another slightly larger hash table is not going to add any significant complexity to the renderer.
Oh, okay then. It's just that, having been lead to believe that db pulls are one of the most 'expensive' operations, I was pretty startled.
Quote:Okay, Laconics don't make good summaries. But are they, en masse, better or worse than an auto-generated summary from the first two lines of the article?
Eh, kinda six of one, half a dozen of the other. Laconic'll give you injokes that only make sense if you've read the main article, grabbing the first two lines will sometimes give you nothing in particular because the begininning is just leadin to the real description. Though I feel like there's more of the former than the latter. I'd kind of hope whatever gets used, there'll be a tag to make it easier to go through and check ones with auto-generated summaries, because I'm thinking a lot will need it.
Also, there seem to be a good number of pages with no Laconic entry anyway.
If you can get something to keep nesting, I think that's a good idea.
-Morgan.