Larry Garfield talks about a new feature of Drupal 7 in a new post to his blog - the new introspective code registry that's been introduced in this latest version.

As a GHOP Task , Cornil did a performance analysis of Drupal and found its two largest performance drains were the bootstrap process and the theming layer.

Quite simply, Drupal spends too much time including code. [...] Fortunately, Drupal 7's self-learning code registry system has just...