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Re: Listing # comments versus # repliesby davido (Cardinal) |
on Feb 29, 2004 at 16:43 UTC ( [id://332654]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Without knowing much about the site's internals, I would have to speculate that such a feat would require recursively walking the database for each top-level node being displayed, to identify how many total replies and replies to replies have occurred. My guess is that would have an exponential effect on the amount of server load for page loads that contain many top-level nodes with many nth level followups.
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