APC and autoloading

Hi folks,

I hope this is the right place for my question ;)

Over at the Propel (http://propel.phpdb.org) Dev Mailing List, we're  
discussing moving to autoloading completely. Someone then mentioned  
the following ticket: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=8765

Is it indeed accurate that APC doesn't accelerate _anything_ if a  
class is loaded via autoloading? I know it doesn't work well with  
_onces, but PHP 5.2 fixes that from what I understand.

I always thought autoloading was the way to go, since it's not doing  
a _once (for obvious reasons), and it's only loading stuff on demand,  
so I assumed it to be the fastest of all possible solutions.

I'd greatly appreciate any insight on this "issue".

Cheers and thanks in advance,

David