Template talk:ISO 639-3

Is this template good for the wiki? I mean to say, how efficiently can it parse this template? -- Strife Onizuka 15:53, 1 January 2008 (PST)

It's a giant switch statement- aren't those relatively efficient compared to a series of if loops ?

SignpostMarv Martin 06:01, 2 January 2008 (PST)

Could have this in O(1) instead of linear search by creating Template:ISO 639-3/deu to return "German", etc. and write this template as {{ISO 639/{{lc|{{{1|}}}}}}}. Though it would need the creation of 7646 pages to cover all cases...

-- ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:33, 28 April 2012 (PDT)

That would shift the problem to the wiki engine as page lookup (not O(1)). Could be interesting since it almost certainly uses self balancing. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:53, 29 April 2012 (PDT)