[@howtogeek Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

After doing some more research, the plugin loading time is virtually instant when you an opcode cache.

I added separate timestamp logging which shows that all the plugins are loaded at 0.019 but the bb_plugins_loaded action doesn’t get fired until 0.1 seconds later.

bb-benchmark.php loaded = 0.019

bb_underscore_plugins_loaded = 0.019

bb_plugins_loaded = 0.102

bb_init = 0.103

bb_index.php_pre_db = 0.106

front-page.php = 0.106

header.php = 0.107

logged-in.php = 0.107

search-form.php = 0.116

footer.php = 0.302

The majority of the time is taken between search form and footer…. I’m not sure yet what gets executed between them.