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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:06:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A quick consensus on magic method idea
From: chrisstocktonaz@gmail.com (Chris Stockton)

Hello,

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
>
> This creates problems for opcode caches since the classes are all
> precompiled and usually optimized to the point where the opcodes that
> loads them are NOP'ed away and you just have the full class table cached
> in memory for each op_array. =A0Walking through that class table on every
> request and looking for these magic methods to call would be quite
> annoying, especially since most of them wouldn't have such a method to
> begin with.
>

That is a good point and something I didn't think about. The pain that
would create immediately negates the small luxury it would add.

Thanks,

-Chris