How are smileys parsed? -- I want to use 1000+ on a big board... bad idea?

[jeremycs]

I tried a similar post @ Vbulletin.com but it hasn't gotten very informative replies yet....

If we are displaying 50 posts per page, will having 1000+ smileys slow Vb down considerably?

I haven't looked at how Vb parses for smileys, but I imagine this could be a bad thing to do depending on how the smilley parsing works.

If tokens trigger replacements then I guess it wouldn't be too bad, but if it is looping over the text looking for 1000+ tokens to replace text with... this would probably not be a good thing.

Does anyone here know how it works offhand?