This was intended to address the problem that ender pearls would not stop on grass, saplings, and other similar objects. However, they don't stop on such objects in MCPE anyway, only PC.
this fixes effect durations being off (mostly), closes#2650
there are still some minor differences, but this is closer matching than the previous version.
In vanilla it doesn't drop the exact number of points you collected. Rather, you lose a little for every level above 1 you had (1 level requires 7 points, later levels require +2 per level), and can recover at most 100 points. Hence, if you had 10 levels, you get back enough points to fill 5 levels and most of a 6th. 14-15 levels gets you the upper bound of about 7.5 levels.
This is not identical to vanilla, but I don't care because it gets rid of edge cases and also makes it easier to integrate with EntityDeathEvent in the future.
This will now throw an exception at the source instead of crashing when the entity is saved, which should put the blame on the correct plugin responsible for this.
This also includes magic method hacks to preserve backwards compatibility, since the fireTicks field is now protected.
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.
