[pLog-svn] The use of constants

[Ammar Ibrahim]

On 4/23/07, Reto Hugi <plog at hugi.to> wrote:
>
> Ammar Ibrahim wrote:
> > I don't like globals as well, they are a bad software engineering
> > practice. But if they are faster, I don't care.
>
> well, we do. Else we wouldn't do OO programming. sometimes it's worth to
> sacrifice speed over


What if the sacrifice is major? we could at least use global variables

> Benchmark and let us know :) but use PHP5
>
> Things you should know and keep in mind during the performance tests:
>
> - most or at least a significiant amount of users have php4 not php5.
> that's why we provide backward compliance. we won't implement
> improvements that brake the compliance.


of course.

- we are not really interested in improvements other versions than
> lifetype 1.2 as this is the version we support.


I'm migrating to 1.2

- inlude_once was replaced with lt_include in 1.2 to improve performance
> (lt_include does not lead to file access operations on every call -
> there might be more to it, but that's what I remember...)
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