Thanks for sharing this. It's interesting that you can improve your performance so much by, essentially, getting rid of the automatic class-loader. On the other

Thanks for sharing this. It's interesting that you can improve your performance so much by, essentially, getting rid of the automatic class-loader. On the other hand, the autoloader is one of the most important improvements to PHP in the last couple of years. It looks like PHP's recent improvements -- easier testing using dependency injection, ORMs, class loaders -- all have a pretty big cost in terms of performance.