[wp-hackers] Function Parameters

[Randy Peterman]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Randy Peterman wrote:
>
>> For brevity passing name=value parameters is nice if you've written 
>> such a large function, but at what point have you created a monster 
>> rather than a function?
>
>
> When the townspeople come at it with torches and pitchforks. :)
>
Ha ha!

And not in a spirit of debate or argument for whichever method is better 
but sincere curiosity:
Which method has better performance results?  If I had a WordPress page 
returning the default index.php file with 4 plugins parsing and 
formatting text and the plugins are using the name=value parameters, 
what is the performance improvement or decrease?  End users care about 
functionality and performance and if the output for a 20 post index page 
is too bad then I vote that folks use the faster of the two.  My 
StatTraq plugin will be more optimized in its next beta to use the 
fastest code I could produce, and if anyone on this list has suggestions 
for improving any common PHP patterns please do post them as we could 
all probably learn something useful.

Regards,

Randy Peterman