Hello Stanislav, both will have a function pointer on the c side so the major slowdown you spoke of will only be there if one actually wants it. Otherwise there will be only the pointer check.
marcus Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 5:28:01 PM, you wrote: MB>>> how is this a major slowdown? It would add a simple pointer check at MB>>>runtime and two places to set the pointer, one place will initialize it to MB>>>NULL and the other will store some function pointer just like all the other MB>>>__*()'s do. > You would have two PHP functions: __callable() and __call() which would > both be called and do the same logic on function call. You can not use > "some function pointer" from PHP. Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php