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One, or at least fewer, passes would be good.
One, or at least fewer, passes would be good.

Magnus has, according to rumour, written such a thing for [[WINOR]]. Could it be adapted?

Revision as of 03:08, 13 March 2003

Our current wikitext parser goes through many passes, with many regexps and a few explode()/implode()s. Not only is it kinda slow, it's prone to horrible frightening bugs when different levels interfere with each other (such as the URL-in-URL bugs).

One, or at least fewer, passes would be good.

Magnus has, according to rumour, written such a thing for WINOR. Could it be adapted?