jurgenhaas/tagadelic — comment on commit 739c096900e8658fe722acff747fbe7b0210d65c
File: tagadelic.module line 240
By berkes:

How does this work? Does it really fire a SELECT for each term? If so: that is unacceptable. For a 60-tags tagclould that would mean 62 queries instead of 2. That is a 3100% performance drop :).