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.
This has the triple bonus effect of a) making a lot of code easier to read, b) reducing Server::getInstance() usages, and c) removing a whole bunch of Server dependencies.
The network and block namespaces are untouched by this commit due to potential for merge conflicts. These should be dealt with separately on master.
- Added `Internet::getIP()`, `Internet::getURL()`, `Internet::postURL()`, and `Internet::simpleCurl()`.
- Deprecated the corresponding functions in `Utils`. Updating to the new functions is as simple as replacing `Utils` with `Internet`, since this doesn't break backwards compatibility.
The deprecations should be catered for by plugin developers. These deprecated redirects will be removed no later than 4.0.0.
This commit contains quite a few breaking changes with respect to how AsyncTasks are handled. This is necessary to allow separation of the ServerScheduler and the AsyncPool, because in the future the ServerScheduler may be removed and instead there will be isolated per-plugin sync-task schedulers - but we cannot have every plugin with its own worker pool for memory usage reasons if nothing else.
The following things have changed:
- ServerScheduler: scheduleAsyncTask(), scheduleAsyncTaskToWorker(), getAsyncTaskPoolSize(), increaseAsyncTaskPoolSize() and similar methods have all been removed. Additionally the static \$WORKERS field has been removed.
- Server: added API method getAsyncPool(). This grants you direct access to the server's AsyncPool. Calls to getScheduler()->scheduleAsyncTask() and scheduleAsyncTaskToWorker() should be replaced with getAsyncPool()->submitTask() and submitTaskToWorker() respectively.
