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Originally Posted by blueerica
It would seem that loading a page in a thread doesn't load the entire thread, so I'm not sure if that's the problem.
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No, it definitely doesn't load the whole thread. But depending on how the function that picks each post is implemented, there may still be some dependency on the size. For example, a really piss poor algorithm that no one would ever use would start at the first post and ask, "Is this post one of the ones that needs to be displayed? Nope. How about the next one? Nope. Next one? Nope." etc. While that horrendously inefficient method would never actually be used, it's not always possible to make such algorithms entirely size-independent.
And now that I think about it, it's more likely the MySql implementation that matters here rather than vB.