This is better for performance because these then don't need to be reevaluated every time they are called.
When encountering an unqualified function or constant reference, PHP will first try to locate a symbol in the current namespace by that name, and then fall back to the global namespace.
This short-circuits the check, which has substantial performance effects in some cases - in particular, ord(), chr() and strlen() show ~1500x faster calls when they are fully qualified.
However, this doesn't mean that PM is getting a massive amount faster. In real world terms, this translates to about 10-15% performance improvement.
But before anyone gets excited, you should know that the CodeOptimizer in the PreProcessor repo has been applying fully-qualified symbol optimizations to Jenkins builds for years, which is one of the reasons why Jenkins builds have better performance than home-built or source installations.
We're choosing to do this for the sake of future SafePHP integration and also to be able to get rid of the buggy CodeOptimizer, so that phar and source are more consistent.
- fixed zombies and villagers movement not updating
- fixed dropped items "movement" lagging the living **** out of the server when not actually moving
- fixed arrows not falling when the supporting block is removed
- fixed knockback
- fixed zombies + villagers being un-attackable after hitting them
... the list goes on
Did you guys think ALPHA7 changes were done?!
Sone stuff still needs some work, most notably data-properties can't be typed yet because they are just mushed into a couple of methods.
