Never ending testing ENVIRONMENT

Removing all  references to cli and ENVIRONMENT switch  we have a gain of 40 - 100 ms /request no opcache .

Perhaps. But if you're running production without opcache you're making a mistake. Besides, you can't run something once and get a valid statistic.

Additionally, the loss of features in the framework isn't worth it. Sorry. Some of those are there to provide CLI tools usage, and some are there we can test it, which we won't give up.

And finally - any production server hardware should way outperform the numbers you're showing there. And lots of variables like the server you're running under (Apache has never been the speediest, for example), the configuration of the server, etc. For example, running locally on my 2015 Macbook Pro with the built in PHP server I see a total time for a raw install of 7-11ms. Every decent server I've hosted on in the last couple of years would easily outperform this.

So, while those aren't going away, we're always open to optimizations that don't come at the expense of the framework itself.

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