- Patch #65801 by Moshe et al: fixed locale initialization slowness.

includes/common.inc

@@ -1341,12 +1341,15 @@ function _drupal_bootstrap_full() {
   drupal_set_header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
   // Detect string handling method
   unicode_check();
-  // Initialize all enabled modules.
-  module_init();
   // Undo magic quotes
   fix_gpc_magic();
-  // Initialize the localization system.
+  // Load all enabled modules
+  module_load_all();
+  // Initialize the localization system.  Depends on i18n.module being loaded already.
   $locale = locale_initialize();
+  // Let all modules take action before menu system handles the reqest
+  module_invoke_all('init');
+
 }
 
 /**

includes/module.inc

@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@
  */
 
 /**
- * Initialize all modules.
+ * Load all the modules that have been enabled in the system table.
  */
-function module_init() {
-  // Load all the modules that have been enabled in the system table.
+function module_load_all() {
   foreach (module_list(TRUE, FALSE) as $module) {
     drupal_load('module', $module);
   }
-  module_invoke_all('init');
 }
 
 /**