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Ah, here’s SMF’s secret against bbPress – sheer number of files + size.

This definitely makes me want to go ahead with making a “quick loader” that will concat all the includes and then all the plugins as two blobs that can be either loaded from disk or mysql at user discretion based on the weakness of their shared server:

Front pages compared:

(keep in mind SMF actually has even more features than the dozen plugins loaded with bbPress, online user tracker, etc)

SMF 1.1.3

files for front page: 8 files, 338.45 Kb



index.php : 14.31 Kb

Settings.php : 3.71 Kb

Sources/QueryString.php : 18.84 Kb

Sources/Subs.php : 132.37 Kb

Sources/Errors.php : 15.94 Kb

Sources/Load.php : 92.47 Kb

Sources/Security.php : 29.88 Kb

Sources/MessageIndex.php : 30.93 Kb

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bbPress 0.8.3 alpha

files for front page: 40 files, 437.15 Kb

index.php : 0.44 Kb

bb-load.php : 0.46 Kb

config.php : 2.28 Kb

bb-settings.php : 7.14 Kb

bb-includes/db-mysqli.php : 12.77 Kb

bb-includes/functions.php : 71.73 Kb

bb-includes/wp-classes.php : 3.37 Kb

bb-includes/classes.php : 37.98 Kb

bb-includes/formatting-functions.php : 8.73 Kb

bb-includes/template-functions.php : 59.12 Kb

bb-includes/capabilities.php : 13.15 Kb

bb-includes/cache.php : 8.52 Kb

bb-includes/deprecated.php : 8.17 Kb

bb-includes/wp-functions.php : 36.06 Kb

bb-includes/kses.php : 17.65 Kb

bb-includes/l10n.php : 1.76 Kb

bb-includes/bozo.php : 10.1 Kb

bb-includes/akismet.php : 8.14 Kb

bb-includes/default-filters.php : 4.45 Kb

bb-includes/script-loader.php : 9.2 Kb

bb-includes/compat.php : 0.57 Kb

my-plugins/_bb-benchmark.php : 4.79 Kb

my-plugins/_cookie-year.php : 0.92 Kb

my-plugins/bb-polls.php : 21.04 Kb

my-plugins/bb-signatures.php : 11.52 Kb

my-plugins/report-post.php : 3.92 Kb

my-plugins/user-topics-to-favorites.php : 0.59 Kb

my-plugins/bb-topic-views.php : 5.91 Kb

my-plugins/my-views.php : 10.13 Kb

my-plugins/notification.php : 2.26 Kb

my-plugins/my-views-started-participated-topics.php : 1.52 Kb

my-plugins/my-views-most-least-views.php : 2.7 Kb

my-plugins/plugin-browser.php : 21.72 Kb

my-plugins/my-views-installed-available-plugins.php : 6.61 Kb

bb-includes/pluggable.php : 8.86 Kb

bb-includes/locale.php : 6.91 Kb

bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php : 3.03 Kb

bb-templates/kakumei/header.php : 1.6 Kb

bb-templates/kakumei/logged-in.php : 0.21 Kb

bb-templates/kakumei/footer.php : 1.13 Kb

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