[wp-testers] Wordpress scaling problems

[Otto]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM, matthijs <matthijsenator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that true? Do you really need to load - all - rules every time? I do
> understand that's the way it's currently done. But is there absolutely no
> way to design it in a different way? So that for example, you first look at
> the request bit by bit and then load only what's needed?

For the specific case that we're talking about, yes, you need them
all. The key here is the category and/or postname. These are just
arbitrary strings. So you need all the strings with which to compare
it with.

Database queries are expensive. String comparisons in memory are fast as heck.