[pLog-svn] A terrible truth about plugin

[Jon Daley]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Mark Wu wrote:
> For my #1 test , my anti virus program still turned on. It really annoying.
 	Ah, that makes sense.

> It might help to get the plugin menu entries put into menu.xml and put the
> plugin locales into core locale files..... they just save at least 200ms in
> each request. Not bad :)
 	I suppose that is why some other programs have their plugins do 
just that - directly edit core files, etc.  And then it is just about 
impossible to uninstall stuff.  I really like our setup where everything 
is clearly separated.  The include thing for the locale makes sense, 
though I don't have a feel for how that will affect the performance.
 	I'd rather look into a different XML parser, or perhaps changing 
the plugin api to make all of the menu additions happen at once (maybe a 
callback sort of thing?) rather than multiple passes through the table.

> For index page, I think it is not a serious problem, because we have a very
> good page cache here.
 	Yes.  I have wondered about having a cache on the admin side too. 
I had similar results with squid that Ayalon had with varnish that you 
can't blindly cache everything.  But, it seems that we should be able to 
do a decent job from inside.

 	By the way, you are testing 1.2.6, and not 2.0, right?  You might 
try looking at 2.0 and see if there is any interesting differences.