[development] The Drupal Diet - Making bootstrap faster

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>:

> This is more of an RFC than a DEP, so please forgive the looser format and
> trademark verbosity. :-)
>
> My current push for Drupal 6 is to make it faster for non-opcode non-cached
> users.  Drupal 5 was, according to Dries' benchmarks, a slight step backwards
> from Drupal 4.7 in that regard, so let's reverse that trend with a vengeance.
>
> Far and away the slowest part of the Drupal life-cycle is bootstrapping.
...
>
> <dons flame-retardant suit>
>
>
> [1] http://drupal.org/node/140218
> [2] http://drupal.org/node/116165
> [3] http://drupal.org/node/140218#comment-236614
> [4] http://drupal.org/node/116165#comment-229856
>

And then there is http://drupal.org/node/116820

Earnie