This reverts commit 06ec8b83978fcc52a7964d678a97c73b50a97aa8.
unfortunately, this had some unanticipated side effects, thanks to
idiotic behaviour in the client ... when having optional downloads but
trying to force resources, the client chokes because it thinks the
server is forcing it to apply a pack that it doesn't have. Since
there's no way to detect when this problem occurs in the protocol, the
only option is to revert this.
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.
