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Improve uncached page rendering times #18

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@rjackson

There are a few areas of the wiki where edits or cache purges takes double-digit seconds, and for a few of our larger pages over a minute – long enough for the load balancer serve a time out to editors.

In a98be18 I've managed to roughly half page load times for cached pages from around ~1.5 to .75s (unscientific measurements, mind), by swapping from Scribunto's default Lua parsing to their PHP extension. That doesn't appear to have made much of a difference to uncached pages however – perhaps that was a fairly fixed overhead, rather than one that scales with page size.

Some useful pages for testing:

Test case Page Page length Purge load time
Simple page Voice_actors 101 1.076s
Typical page Scout 37290 11.872s
Large page User:Gabrielwoj/Images/Decorated 2377186 60s+ (timeout)

Purge load time: Average of 5 loads from the live wiki, at time of writing

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