allfiles.php has nothing to do with performance - please read the proposal CAREFULLY

Hello all, Several people have mistakenly cited allfiles.php as a performance-based decision. It is not. The purpose of allfiles.php is to provide a vector to do two things: 1) beginners who just want to see how a package works and do not yet have PEAR installed can simply use this procedure to try a package out 2) advanced users who wish to see which files are within a package can use it to decide which files they wish to include directly It serves no useful performance purpose, and is likely to be slower than both require_once and __autoload() for complex packages because more files are loaded. Greg