previously nobody except the person who was managing timings would know that timings was running, being pasted or whatever else. Since timings can impact performance (and, for example, block the main thread when writing timings to a file), access to it should be logged so that server owners know what's going on.
these were not in the usage search because PhpStorm decided to refer to ChunkLoader->getLevel() for any Player references, which caused them to only show when that was searched.
There's also an undetected LSP violation with ChunkLoader because it requires returning Level and Position->getLevel() returns Level|null. I don't know why PHPStan doesn't complain about that.
this isn't released yet so it's OK to change.
phpstan level 7 doesn't like these kinds of ambiguous return types because there's no way for it to tell which type is returned without a return type specifying extension, and it's easier to just change the API than to make PHPStan understand it.
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.
