[development] How many modules is too many?

[blogdiva at culturekitchen.com]

Hello all,

I just wrote a blog post that makes reference to a post that popped  
up at the SUPPORT list that I believe is timely to your discussion here.

More on Drupal and Usability
http://lizasabater.com/more_on_drupal_and_usability

Interesting enough, here's another post at the SUPPORT list that ends  
with words that echo the usability issues I feel are involved with  
the module bloat discussion :

> BTW, it would be so easy to be able to move body and title (and
> taxonomy) in the CCK configuration screen (they have fixed weight)

http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/support/2007-November/006752.html

Cheers,

/ liza


On  22.Nov.2007, at 01:22 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2007 4:41 AM, J-P Stacey <jp.stacey at torchbox.com> wrote:
> Greg Holsclaw wrote:
> > Drupal 6 will better optimize this issue by allowing module  
> developers
> > to better include only the needed files through the menu system,  
> thus
> > reducing overall memory usage without adding much overhead for  
> opening
> > more files. I am sure chx would give a better summary.
>
> I was just thinking, what might be nice, then, is for there to be some
> standard way of componentizing a module, and bringing in bits of it  
> based on
> the URL. I take it from the mention of menu that that's what D6 does?
>
> Module splitting has happened as part of D6, mostly along the lines  
> of admin
> stuff and regular stuff. However, it can be further tuned to be  
> more granular,
> but it has to be on a module by module basis. No general rule can  
> work for all
> possible permutations.
>
>
> If you introduce a precompiler to minimize the file hits in such a  
> system as
> Khalid mentions, would that nullify the effect you're after on the  
> memory?
> Do precompilers typically work within the allocated memory of the  
> apache
> processes and hence bloat them just the same?
>
> Effectively, if you have a shared memory based op-code cache (e.g.  
> APC), then
> yes, the splitting becomes moot. Remember that not all people can  
> have an
> op-code cache (e.g. shared hosts), so there is benefit to those  
> from splitting
> the modules.
>
> Op-code caches do save memory, since the code is loaded ONCE, parsed,
> tokenized and stored as tokens. So, the memory footprint becomes  
> less per
> Apache process.
>
>
> Cheers,
> J-P
> --
> J-P Stacey
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com
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> Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.

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