Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] APC/PHP Lazy Loading

On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Rodrigo Saboya wrote:
> Ronald, I think you are overreacting a little bit. It may be that  
> proper written could would get no benefit from this patch since it  
> would not load unneeded code and this patch ends up speeding up  
> environments where such "correct" loading isn't done. I don't think  
> that's a reason to disqualify a feature that brings benefits with  
> no significant drawbacks.
>
> For the average PHP programmer, the language will simply "get  
> faster". That can't be bad in any way. It doesn't encourage you to  
> write bad code, it just doesn't kick you in the nuts when you do.

Sold. (The best arguments are always the short ones).

As I said: "I'm trying to raise a token flag of discussion/ 
resistance", but nobody in the discussion seems to have found any  
really important downsides, yet, with only me raising *any* sort of  
flag (though I admit it's not much of one).

:)

-Bop