[development] How could everyone win and get Views in Drupal 8?

[Jeremy Andrews]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:50 -0700, Earl Miles wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how many of those things do you use on your fast, 
> lightweight sites?
> 
> tracker.module: Not fast.

If you're building a fast lightweight site that needs a tracker, you'd
replace the core module with this:
http://drupal.org/project/tracker2 

> blog.module: Does anybody *really* use this?

Sure.

> node front page, river of news: The weight of 10+ node_load() calls 
> vastly outweighs anything Views adds to this.

You'd fix this with one of these patches:
http://tag1consulting.com/patches/load_cache
http://drupal.org/node/111127

> admin pages: It's ok for them to be a little heavy.

But why should they be if they don't have to be?

> The blocks can be cached.

Caching is great, but it shouldn't be an excuse for unoptimized code.

-Jeremy