Re: [development] The Drupal Diet - Making bootstrap faster

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>:

This is more of an RFC than a DEP, so please forgive the looser format and trademark verbosity. :-)

My current push for Drupal 6 is to make it faster for non-opcode non-cached users. Drupal 5 was, according to Dries' benchmarks, a slight step backwards from Drupal 4.7 in that regard, so let's reverse that trend with a vengeance.

Far and away the slowest part of the Drupal life-cycle is bootstrapping. ...

<dons flame-retardant suit>

[1] http://drupal.org/node/140218 [2] http://drupal.org/node/116165 [3] http://drupal.org/node/140218#comment-236614 [4] http://drupal.org/node/116165#comment-229856

And then there is http://drupal.org/node/116820 Earnie