[wp-hackers] PHP Lazy Loading in WordPress 3.2

[Andrew Nacin]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>wrote:

> I've heard rumors <
> http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/wordpress-3-2-the-plan-faster-lighter/>
> that WordPress 3.2 will implement lazy loading of PHP classes. Is any of
> this currently incorporated into the latest development version?
>
> I'm writing an MVC plugin framework for my own development projects and I
> wanted to implement lazy loading for my framework, but now I'm worried that
> I might do something that the release of 3.2 will break.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on where this is at or point me in the direction
> of some code in progress so I can see how it's being implemented? I've
> looked around on Trac but haven't seen much. Should I wait for 3.2 to
> incorporate lazy loading or is it still far away?
>

If we do any lazy loading, we're not going to use __autoload().
Possibly spl_autoload_register()
(which can't be relied on always being available until 5.3). More likely
we're just going to try to load a little less PHP whenever possible through
other creative means.

I've been working on it, but for now I'm just studying various ways we can
actually lower our memory footprint. There will probably be a ticket created
this week.

Nacin