As some of you know I'm strongly considering purchasing a license for this great product. I saw the italicised text below today though. Is it true or just a false rumour?
vBulletin is a piece of forum software (v. 2.2.9). It's run at somethingawful.com. Recently, the load average on the servers was stupidly high, and they just found the cause of it.
vBulletin uses emoticon codes like :hello: :google: (Many user defined ones). Somethingawful has around 237 smileys.
How they are replaced for the final output is for each smiley, running a search and replace on the posts. They would get processed over 200 times before displaying each post on a page.
vBulletin is a piece of forum software (v. 2.2.9). It's run at somethingawful.com. Recently, the load average on the servers was stupidly high, and they just found the cause of it.
vBulletin uses emoticon codes like :hello: :google: (Many user defined ones). Somethingawful has around 237 smileys.
How they are replaced for the final output is for each smiley, running a search and replace on the posts. They would get processed over 200 times before displaying each post on a page.
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