PHP performance hampered by require()

Question

I ran my code through xdebug profiler and saw more than 30 percent of the time is spent on the require() calls. What is the best way to improve on this? I saw some posts a

Answer 1

how many items are in your include path? and is the order of the locations sensible for your application? if you're using relative paths then it will check the include-path locations in order looking for a matching file.