Let's cut this thread because it's not going anywhere.
Once 5.0 is out I'll try and play with a few things and see if memory consumption can be reduced. It's not something which I meant to happen for 5.0 anyway which is now in bug fix only mode. Whether it's by supporting a --lean-and-mean switch to disable some rinits and functions (maybe aliases as well), or changing some other aspects of PHP, it can be a good thing. I understand that merrily nuking a few functions from the PHP build won't do the trick, but not everyone is Y! and wants to run on a zillion 100 process httpd servers. Some actually prefer running a tenth of a zillion servers with 1000 httpd processes :)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure some things can be done and I'll look into them after 5.0. It's bad timing now anyway before the RC.
Not to do with memory, I still think ext/standard has become a junk yard and it would be cool to split that up. For those who are hard of hearing, I still mean for all that crap to be enabled by default (I hate breaking BC or having different default builds behave differently), but there is no reason not to enable a --lean-and-mean switch at some point to remove all the crap some ppl don't need. If you want all the crap and aliases, *just don't use that switch* :)
Andi
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