[development] One core, many distributions

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Adrian Rossouw wrote:

> There will only (really) ever be as many aliases as you have nodes /  
> users.
>
> If you have 1 million nodes/users, you have for more problems than  
> the path_alias table.
>
> The path alias table is really simple, and we improved the  
> performance a ton, so it only loads
> aliases as needed (instead of caching all of them the whole time)
>

Well, we try to find an alias for every link and end up sending at least 
a few dozen requests to that table per page view. I'd still like to see 
this more centralized so we can get away with less queries.


Cheers,
    Gerhard