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 starvation doesn't deal any damage at all (Human->getFood() returns a float, not an int, === 0 won't work so great)
- Added exhaustion for sprinting, walking, jumping and sprint-jumping as per MCPE (these use MCPE values, and yes MCPE does walking exhaustion!)
- Fixed attributes don't get reset after player death
- Added food and hunger regeneration in peaceful difficulty
- Added API methods Living->jump() (motion isn't updated yet, so this won't actually do much if plugins try to use it) and Living->getJumpVelocity()
TODO: implement exhaustion for swimming
