Re: New function proposal: spl_class_vars / params / contents

First: I'd understand, I've to build the caching system on my own; Second: I'd vote for speeding up Reflection. Thanks, -- (c) Kenan Sulayman Freelance Designer and Programmer Life's Live Poetry 2009/1/21 Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> > Christian Schneider wrote: > >> Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >> >>> On 21.01.2009, at 12:00, Karsten Dambekalns wrote: >>> >>> On 21.01.2009 11:44 Uhr, Kenan R Sulayman wrote: >>>> >>>>> I did propose the function because the construction in user-land is >>>>> quite >>>>> expensive; >>>>> >>>> Reflection is expensive, indeed. The way we solved it for FLOW3 is to >>>> create a ReflectionService that caches such information as long as the >>>> source doesn't change. >>>> >>> yeah its a general problem .. but so far the decision has been that we >>> should move away from adding more and more functions/methods for highly >>> specialized cases (as in not continue in the get_class() etc. approach). >>> now speeding up reflections is a very real issue .. suggestions in this >>> regard are quite welcome. maybe offering a cache service as part of core >>> is one approach .. >>> >> >> Yes, please. Keep clutter out of the engine especially for stuff which >> should not be used often. If you are relying on Reflection to be fast >> for you everyday code then you're IMHO doing something weird and it is >> ok that you have to write your own caching for it (-:C >> >> > seems to me that many of the new requests coming in, including my own > stupid ones are because people want to build fast decent orm's in php - a > definitive list of what one needs to make an orm in php, the userland > approaches possible, what could be implemented in php and what couldn't > might be good. address the whole thing in a oner. > > quite sure the requests and need is only going to grow.. imho it's being > encouraged by the increasing numbers using PDO - it kind of suggests > building an orm :p > > also, very unlike me, but a service to cache reflection classes is quick > and simple to implement in userland - (although if there is a free speed up > to reflection going I'll 'ave some) > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >