I think Official devs may need to go thru alot of the core files.

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]

page render is now 0.0103 compared to ci original 0.0306

I have no doubt about your capabilities of testing, but benchmarks are influenced by a lot of things, especially when working with such small timeframe. Did you try with APC on? I'm very curious what the difference would be (I expect it to be negligible but you never know)