[development] Strip out theme functions into a .theme file

[Adam Cooper]

Dries Wrote:
>On 03 Aug 2006, at 20:32, Jakub Suchy wrote:
>>> Adrian seems to think it is not a performance issue though.
>>
>> Imagine you have 15 activated modules. Every module has 2 theme
>> functions, which makes it 30 fopen() calls for every page load.
>> This IS
>> performance issue.
>
>There is lots of subtle trade-offs involved (eg. less PHP parsing,
>smaller memory footprint, but more fopen() calls) and it is hard to
>predict how these level out.  Let's not make claims and just
>benchmark it?

Would an opcode cache help to negate the fopen() calls? It may be worth
benchmarking to see.

Adam


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