[TYPO3-project-4-3] autoloader using SPL

[Ingo Renner]

Ingo Renner wrote:

>>> In addition __autoload()
>>> might (have to) keep track of which classes are loaded already.
>>
>> Why? require_once() does that already.
> 
> Yes it does (or at least should), but I remember having read somewhere 
> that it still does read the file even though it has been loaded before. 
> Quite stupid actually.

ok, found some reference:
http://ilia.ws/files/phptek2007_performance.pdf

what we also should consider when implementing autoloading is always 
including using absolute paths:
http://drupal.org/node/259623
(also mentioned in the slides above)


Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2