On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Michael Depetrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Thursday, 06 November 2008, 09:33 PM -0800): >> Does using autoload improve or reduce performance? >> >> I thought I saw an email by you where you stated in did. > > It improves performance, particularly when you strip out the > require_once calls within Zend Framework (which you can do with a simple > one-liner using find and sed).
Just to add to this. Yes, and also no. Zend_Loader by itself is faster than all the require_once in the framework. However, it can be simplified still to e.g. using include vs. include_once since autoload is only invoked when the class is not found thus making include_once redundant. Till
