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 removes the need for custom Plugin implementations to implement onCommand().
In the future it's planned to remove plugin.yml commands completely and have them registered similarly to how events are handled.
This is intended to break API in order to jerk the rug out from underneath plugin developers who have been misusing this without noticing the side effects.
Use of this by plugins will produce a lot of undefined behaviour, such as event handlers not being unregistered, scheduled tasks not being removed, and registered permissions causing memory leaks.
I wasn't sure whether this would be considered a bug fix or a feature. Nonetheless, it's a behavioural change, so it belongs in 3.1 if anywhere.
Prior to this, plugins would be required to call saveDefaultConfig() before calling getConfig() or anything else. Calling getConfig() without saveDefaultConfig() first would generate an empty configuration file. Instead, it now saves the default config before loading it.
I considered making this instead save the default config instead of creating an empty config file, but that would be (albeit minor) a behavioural change which therefore belongs in 3.1.
- remove onLoad(), onEnable(), onDisable()
- remove Config related methods
- remove getResource(), saveResource(), getResources()
did I troll any readers so far?
On a more serious note, these methods do not need to be declared in this interface because they are either hooks (`onLoad()`, `onEnable()`, `onDisable()`) or methods only used from within `PluginBase` and its children. They are not intended to be public API, and for this reason they don't need to be exposed in the interface.
This features a near-total rewrite of PluginLoaders and some code associated with them.
Highlights:
- PluginManager->registerInterface() does not return anything, and now accepts a PluginLoader instance instead of a string.
- PluginLoader itself is drastically simplified. getPluginFilters(), enablePlugin() and disablePlugin() are now removed. loadPlugin() responsibilities are now solely confined to doing whatever is necessary to make the plugin's classes visible by the server, and does not emit log messages or check for data directories.
- PluginBase->init() and PluginBase->isInitialized() have been removed.
- Plugin interface now declares a signature for the constructor which implementations must comply with.
- Plugin interface now declares setEnabled().
This change breaks pretty much all API pertaining to synchronous task scheduling.
Significant changes:
- Server->getScheduler() has been removed
- Plugin->getScheduler() has been added - every plugin now has its own scheduler
- Because schedulers are now per-plugin, it is now unnecessary for PluginTask to exist because stopping plugin tasks on plugin disable is as simple as destroying the plugin's scheduler. Therefore PluginTask has now been removed and it is expected for things to now use the base Task class instead.
For the most part, plugins will simply need to change Plugin->getServer()->getScheduler()->... to Plugin->getScheduler()->...
Another highlight is that plugin tasks now no longer have global IDs - they are unique to each scheduler.
