How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by jackowayed on Thursday February 12, 2009 @06:08PM (#479141)

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Or, "How to Make Your Host Very Happy Because You Suddenly Have to Move Up To a Server With Double the Processing Cycles"

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Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by patio11 on Thursday February 12, 2009 @08:57PM (#479302)

I realize this is probably a joke, but the relative infrequency of rating, the fact that this rating algorithm only requires information from the local context[1], and the existence of caching means that this is very, very unlikely to be the bottleneck for any site.

[1] i.e. to calculate Harry Potter's rating you only need to know about Harry Potter, not every other book ever printed

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Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by jackowayed on Friday February 13, 2009 @03:51PM (#480392)

yeah, you could cache it in the db until you get a new rating.

It would still slow you down a little though.

And yes, it was a joke :-)

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