[development] Menu system work

[Moshe Weitzman]

Dries Buytaert wrote:
> 
> On 05 Mar 2007, at 00:11, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> 
>> HEAD
>> ab2 -n20 http://head.example.com/| egrep "^Req|^Time"
> 
> You'll want to bump that 20 to 2000 or so.  I'm a bit disappointed by 
> the results of HEAD.  It's faster, but not much.  I was under the 
> impression that the biggest win of the new menu system would be a nice 
> performance gain ...

sites that don't use navigation block (which means most designed sites) 
should be much better off. even if performance gain were small, memory gain 
is substantial. i have no benchmarks to back that up though.