my site is currently small, but since i’m hoping it grows, i’m making sure that each plugin i use can handle the eventual traffic… so here are my thoughts on alinks and high-traffic sites:
beyond profiling the code to make sure it’s super efficient, the best replication of the concept would be to “render” the links at publish time (instead of having to update/filter the content each time the post gets requested). easy in concept, but have to be careful since you’re modifying the native post permanently and if you change (add or remove) words from your alist, you might need to go back and republish to update the post or automatically search through existing posts to make changes… is that a reasonable approach? would you be comfortable having a program automatically altering a post? thoughts are appreciated before I head down the path to try to implement…
i sent jtappan a note and hopefully we can get the alinks source code into sourceforge so we can continue developments, make additional feature enhancements, without overlapping effort.
