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Originally Posted by sabret00the

what's the server load like?

The server load isn't affected as this is merely a split and join of a string to an array and back to a string.

There is no disk I/O, no database reads or writes... it's pure CPU work within the current PHP thread. And if you have a performance optimiser installed such as mmcache, then even with thousands of users doing this simultaneously you're not going to see a difference.

It uses all existing vBulletin code, simply does a whip through the string and creates links out of them.

The only side effect at all is increased HTML in the member profile page... but that doesn't count either, as if you're gzip'ing output... the repeated URL text would be compressed to very little indeed.

Server load is neglible to non-existant.