Re: Reducing the number of system calls for includes

Apart from tidying up the include stuff.. - for this specific case, is it worth cosidering precompiling all the files into a single bytecode file?, thats what bcompiler ends up doing for classes.. etc. then manually indicate that you want to recompile the bundle, I'm guessing the actual PHP code doesnt change that much.. - (although bcompiler doesnt handle staightline PHP it might help on the classes..)... Regards Alan Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Eliminating realpath for fully qualified paths make sense to me. But... don't you Y! guys use php-a? Shouldn't this hide that overhead completely from you by completely eliminating all the stats on a require/include after the initial compilation? Or is this just a

It doesn't eliminate it at all, no. These checks are still done even on accelerated includes in both zend cache and ioncube. -Rasmus

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