Re: on the coding standards - Re: [PEAR-DEV] PEAR Group June 24 2007 Meeting Minutes

Hi, Joshua Eichorn wrote:

Alexey Borzov wrote:

Arnaud Limbourg wrote:

The issue trying to be solved here is to be opcoce cache friendly.

I'd really like to see something like "developer X, who maintains opcode cache Y, suggests this approach in his (tutorial|presentation|article) which can be read at [Z]." here, not just vigorous handwaving.

There is a thread from oct 2006 where we got feedback from Ramsus, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.pear.core/4803

Deeper in this thread Rasmus writes:

I personally prefer completely clean libraries that don't do any runtime checks at all. Any tricks you add will cause nasty performance penalties. autoload is especially nasty because you are forcing things out of the compiler down into the executor which again kills performance under an opcode cache.

Doesn't look like an encouragement to use __autoload() to me...