On Aug 30, 2013 1:31 PM, "Anthony Ferrara" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For constants and function calls, the benchmark shows that the difference
> is well within the margin of error for the test (considering variances of
> 5% to 10% were common in my running of the tests).
>
> So hopefully this will dispel any worry about performance regressions in
> currently defined cases.
>
> The times where performance will take a hit, is with undefined functions
> and constants. Today, an undefined function will fatal error, so this
> performance hit would be 0, as it would enable something that's not
> possible today.
I would assume there is actually potential for performance gain for
functions being autoloaded in larger codebases when the *_once calls are
removed that would normally load the common functions files.