Re: [development] performance foo

Neil Drumm wrote:

Chris Johnson wrote:

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Interesting idea. So I rewrote object2array() and better() like this:

function object2array($object) { return get_object_vars($object); }

function better($object) { return (array) $object; }

Why do we even need these one-line functions? Can't the calling code just do the casting?

not always. there are contexts in which function is legal but a cast is not. if anyone tries to change all the calls to these objects they will run into this.