Don't rout all file requests through index.php in .htaccess

I was building a traffic monitor and I noticed that ALL file requests (e.g. jpg/gif/txt) go through the index.php file, which is quite CPU consuming for the server.

IMHO the .htaccess should route files like this:
- direct acess to all jpg, gif, png, ico, bmp, js, txt, css files (maybe I'm missing some more types?)
- block acess to tpl, (not sure if blocking access to php files is also required?)
- all other requests should go through index.php

So, the question is how to implement this in the .htaccess file? Or maybe someone has already done this?

Well, it seemengly took a lot of time, to recover from the Posting below
but with a 'burdon' like this, it might be hard for them to judge on, whether
you qualify or not as Seller, since you left not much other traces since.
Just to have replied on this, since nobody here has any influence on such.
Good Luck, no offense ...
Ernie
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