By bcc on
In terms of site performance, is it better to have less roles?

I'm about to expand my roles so that editors can only access content in their subject area.

I have a choice of either creating primary levels, or secondary levels... which means I can either make 8 new roles or about 40 new roles. Given that each role has it's own permissions in TAC, would it be best to have minimal roles so that drupal isnt bogged down in regard to page loading times??

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matt v.’s picture

matt v. commented

I don't know for certain, but I doubt there would be all that much of a performance hit from the added roles; however, the permissions page would start to become a unwieldy with that many roles.

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bcc’s picture

bcc commented

hmmm I'd like to hear more on this. As I can see, there would be exponentially more queries when you have a multitude of roles with different permissions.

Can anyone give technical input into the matter?

junro’s picture

junro commented

I'm very interesting about an real explanation :)