http://snaps.php.net/~andi/realpath_cache2.diff Should/could we add this to ~masked mod_php-5 while it's still young? Or maybe, conditionalise SRC_URI to include this (say with +contribs, +experimental, ...)? This patch is quite a performace boost on some arches, and could use the testing ;-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
How stable is this patch?
A couple weeks/a month. It's still in development, but will likely reach the 5_1 dev branch next week, if there are no problems.
I don't trust it... I'd say it can wait till PHP-5.1*. or if it gets officially backported and in the upstream 5.0 series, I've got no objections to that then.