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

[Earl Miles]

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>> FYI, in my tests, the expensive part of Drupal is the bootstrapping.
> 
> That is not the bootstrap process as such, but loading and parsing all 
> the files, that is a general PHP issue. Two known solutions exist: 
> Opcode caches or split mode. :)

Agreed. I read through a bunch of your posts about your experimentations with 
such, and decided it just wasn't worth bothering with. But it is worth 
remembering that drupal_goto is not a free operation.