[drupal-devel] Speed of Drupal, memory usage, and all that stuff

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> > This is the alternative approach for which I already have a (somewhat
> > dirty) parser. ;)
> >
> > The problem is that the most elegant way to write such a parser involves
> > using php 4.3.x. If we only want the function names, a php 4.1 version
> > could be developed, though.
>
> Would that resolve things like?
>
> /* this is defined in another file
> function foobar_foo() {
> }
> */

Probably not.

> I doubt. Contrib modules might have such code though, especially modules
> under development (head).

Well, then developers need to learn a bit about cvs. Uncommented code is
evil.

> Also I have authored patches before with code
> like:
>
> if (!function_exists('foobar_foo')) {
>    function foobar_foo() {
>      ...
>    }
> }
>
> Which is even hard for the tokenizer to parse...

If you write:
if (!function_exists('foobar_foo')) {
function foobar_foo() {
  ...
}
}

It should be possible.

Cheers,
	Gerhard