Comment 78 for bug 518422

Please note that even if the current issue with the components directory is fixed, the PoC for trunk should still be considered as it also decreases the number of stat() calls at startup (normalization does a stat() on every sub directory of the path starting from / to see if it is a symbolic link and possibly resolve it). With this PoC, any call to file.normalize for use with file.equals could be removed.