[development] Re: Why Drupal 4.7 is late? (long)

[Earl Miles]

Allie Micka wrote:
> I know that you know this, but it helps to think of things in a cost/ 
> benefit mindset.  Most sites are read-heavy, so the redirect only  
> occurs on a very small percentage of requests.  Even an active site  
> will see less than 1 post for every 500 views, so creating a 501th  
> request is well worth it to reap the benefits already discussed in  this 
> thread.

FYI, in my tests, the expensive part of Drupal is the bootstrapping.