I am learning how Drupal works and everything, and I came across something that I am curious about. If I understand the process of the bootstrap correctly, then EVERY enables module is actually loaded up in the FULL stage. That uses up however much memory it uses. But when Drupal is mapping URLs to functions it executes hook_menu() and builds an array of callback mapping.
I've just created a topic in the module development section which may also be a little bit of interest to core development. Or at the very least I hope any response in this thread might give me some insight on how internationalization is handled in the new Drupal 6 core. (Or even better that I might have given a new idea that can be used, but I don't think my post is that shocking at all).
Working on an idea, but I need to know if I can sort on a calculated number? For example, assume Drupral ran the Digg site and wanted to sort, not just on descending order of the number of Diggs, but on the number of Diggs times something else, like length of time since article was posted, for example. Can the sorting function of Drupal sort on this calculated result instead of a hard number in a field?