Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/19895 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: moshe weitzman Reported by: moshe weitzman Updated by: moshe weitzman Status: patch Just in case someone thinks this isn't a significant problem, have a look at this scan of the Contrib repos. Some of these modules are not breaking the bootstrap, but sure many are. grep -rnl "_init(" * amazonsearch/amazon_search.module amazontools/amazon.inc amazontools/amazon.php4.inc amazontools/amazon.php5.inc attached_node/attached_node.module authorise/patches/tree.patch blogtheme/blog_theme.module contextlinks/CHANGELOG.txt devel/devel.module ecommerce/contrib/authorize_net/authorize_net.module filestore2/filestore2.module gallery/gallery.module groups/groups.module htmlarea/plugins/UploadDocuments/popups/insert_link.php htmlarea/plugins/UploadImage/popups/insert_image.php htmltidy/htmltidy.module i18n/i18n.inc i18n/i18n.module i18n/patches/i18n_drupal_goto.patch i18n/patches/i18n_language_variables.patch jsdomenu/jsdomenu.module ldap_integration/ldap_integration.module massmailer/engines/phplist/config.php media/media.module node_aggregator/feed.module nodewords/nodewords.module over_text/over_text.module paypal_framework/paypal_framework.module quicktags/quicktags.module recorder/recorder.module ride/ride.module sections/README.txt sections/sections.module shoutbox/shoutbox.module taxonomy_assoc/taxonomy_assoc.module taxonomy_context/taxonomy_context.module theme_editor/theme_editor_engine.engine troll/troll.module weblink/weblink.module webserver_auth/webserver_auth.module moshe weitzman Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2, 2005 - 14:39 : moshe weitzman Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/module_list.patch (1.02 KB) currently modules can inadvertently load all other modules during the bootstrap. this is easy to do by calling a node_load() or module_invoke_all(). this degrades performance for anonymous users when caching is enabled. with this patch, the module writer will see an php error like "Call to undefined function: drupal_set_html_head()" if this is attempted. basically, unavailable functions are actually reported as unavailable. this patch is only 1 line long, and probably worthy of 4.6 consideration. If it goes in for 4.7, that would be OK with me too. in order to test this patch, you could view a cached page as anonymous when an offending modeule is enabled (e.g. sections.module, taxonomy_context.module, etc.). I will help fix all these modules after this patch is accepted.