Re the memory footprint... strange! My test was on my laptop - PHP5.2.1 from ubuntu feisty package, PPC 32bits. Still, I got roughly half the mem footprint from 1.5... ahhh, the olden days of low memory usage, horse-drawn cars and pipe-smoking detectives...
Fair enough - if module writers get events-happy it will walk modules willy-nilly but that's up to us to behave 
Re the memory footprint... strange! My test was on my laptop - PHP5.2.1 from ubuntu feisty package, PPC 32bits. Still, I got roughly half the mem footprint from 1.5... ahhh, the olden days of low memory usage, horse-drawn cars and pipe-smoking detectives...
Re the memory footprint... strange! My test was on my laptop - PHP5.2.1 from ubuntu feisty package, PPC 32bits. Still, I got roughly half the mem footprint from 1.5... ahhh, the olden days of low memory usage, horse-drawn cars and pipe-smoking detectives...