Stut wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: >> Stut wrote: >>> Jo chem baas wrote: ^- wtf happened here? :-) it's quite funny if you know dutch :-) ... >>> Whether there is conditional definition or not, the opcode cache will >>> look the same. The reason for this is that function and class >>> definitions happen at runtime not compile time. This would have to be >>> the case for conditional definition to work at all, since the compiler >>> cannot determine the value of a condition at compile-time. >> >> okay, but I was just paraphrasing the man Rasmus, although I admit I may >> have misinterpreted (or misundersstood the 'why') - thought I pretty sure >> he has written on a number of occasions that code like the following >> sucks >> for op-code caches and should be avoided: >> >> if (foo()) { >> class Foo { } >> } > > Hopefully he's reading and will be able to give us a definitive answer. here is the post that I was recalling: http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/2006-March/017676.html I believe his third point validates what I was saying although I did make a bit of a mess with regard of my use of terminology. > > I'm going by my experience of stepping through code with Zend Studio, > but it's possible (probably likely) that ZE does something slightly > different when a debugger is attached. > > -Stut > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php