Re: RFC: Traits for PHP

Hello Stefan, a userland copy'n'paste does not allow to reuse already compiled opcodes. Traits do at least conceptionally. marcus Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 1:09:24 PM, you wrote: > Hi Mark, >> If it doesn't affect performance *MUCH* then I'm all for it ! It can >> bring better structure for complex designs. Also by reusing, I'm >> assuming less memory will be needed for the code base which is beneficial. > the current implementation does not save any memory compared to a > user-level copy'n'past solution. But there might be the opportunity to > optimize the op_array handling. > The performance impact is almost the same for a trait usage as for > inheritance or interface definitions. The only costly operation is > copying the method body from the trait to the class where it is used. > But this should be much cheaper than parsing the method for each > single class, what would be necessary if one would use a good old > copy'n'past approach. > Kind Regards > Stefan Best regards, Marcus