Optimazing coppermine

[allvip]

Because I have a shared host and on a shared host CPU time and MySql time are limited (already reached the limit a few times) I did this:

I deleted everything in theme.php and I edited the functions directly in include/theme.inc.php (I have to edit some functions to have the layout I want).

Is asumed that everytime a users is viewing a page coppermine loads template.html,themes.php,style.css,the images and themes.inc.php so I decided to delete all the functions from theme.php to have a smaller size(1KB).At least this way one of the files loding is smaller (theme.php).

Was that a good ideea?
Did I optimize the page this way (smaller page size and consumes less server resources) ?

The reason I am asking is because I don't like to edit theme.inc.php and I want to know if I went to all that trouble for nothing.I proabilby did not optimize coppermine at all.

[allvip]

I already did that on my gallery http://allvip.us/gallery/

[Jeff Bailey]

It is not recommended but as long as you know what edits you made and can adapt the edits for upgrades it won't be a problem. Not sure if it would improve performance at all, you'd have to do benchmark tests or watch page load times in a dev tool. Even if it does improve, it would probably be minimal. Turn on debug for admin and load a couple pages to see what tasks are taking up resources, then go from there.

[allvip]

I will try your recomandations.
Thanks a lot.

[Αndré]

I won't expect performance improvements, as each theme function is still wrapped in

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if (!function_exists(...)) {
in include/themes.inc.php.

If you define them in theme.php, they get ignored in include/themes.inc.php.