On Aug 30, 2013 1:31 PM, "Anthony Ferrara" <ircmax...@gmail.com> 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.
