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Any performance increases you would see if those were removed (which they won't be) would be unnoticeable.

One very important reason to have things working form the command line is running tests. And the new sparks CLI tool will only getter better and help you develop/debug faster in the future.

If your application is that speed critical in production, than I'm sure you've got opcache turned on, and are using multiple layers of caching as appropriate throughout the application, which will make many of those checks you're concerned about not ran anyway.

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