08-10-2006, 10:39 PM
From further down in the thread:
So there is at least some explanation of how such a little thing could affect performance so much.
Quote:Poster: ogre at 8/10/2006 12:52:54 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Temporary Item Buffs
The code that was allowing this to work was actually added for socketed items for the expansion. There's a lot more to it than just one extra enchantment being saved. This new storage mechanism for socketing has had a major impact on the sites that are still running on our old hardware platform, which was already close to maxed out on some of those sites. Every site in the world will be running on newer, better, hardware by the time the expansion rolls around, and we will be able to fix thisagain, as well as have socketed items for the expansion.
This is obviously not an ideal solution, but we had to weigh the problems players are having just playing at all on some of the old sites at times against leaving this as is.
So there is at least some explanation of how such a little thing could affect performance so much.