On 15/12/06, Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang(a)thewritingpot.com> wrote:
This extension will murder performance. You cannot do
the socket
connection at runtime without incurring significant delays in page serving.
It's not a problem, since it's not like we'll ever use it on Wikimedia
anyway. To be perfectly blunt about it; if other people want to
install inefficient custom code on their wikis...well, it's their
servers, their requirements, and their problem.
Rob Church