[development] coding standard question

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Tue Aug 28 00:05:29 UTC 2007


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Oleg Terenchuk schrieb:
> Sorry to add more salt to the open wound, but i am with Steve Rude on this
> one. when it comes to drupal, we should hang onto every chance to improve
> performance. even small things like changing upper case TRUE to lowercase.
> as some have mentioned: in a single request drupal might not have enough
> such cases to make a difference. but when your site receives a lot of
> traffic, something as small as this might make a difference.

If Drupal would adopt such "ideas" the code would be pretty much unreadable.

It is much cheaper to buy a faster server than to pay developers to
understand obscure code.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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