Removed APPPATH.'third_party' from the packages autoloader to negate needless file stats if no packages exist or if the developer does not load any other packages by default.
diff --git a/application/config/autoload.php b/application/config/autoload.php
index 90b1a80..53129c9 100644
--- a/application/config/autoload.php
+++ b/application/config/autoload.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 |
 */
 
-$autoload['packages'] = array(APPPATH.'third_party');
+$autoload['packages'] = array();
 
 
 /*