Re: Re: Validation class comments

At 16:39 23/04/02 -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Because the built-in validation types just contain 2 lines and it does not 
> pay to move them to separate classes.
I was thinking of bigger validation routines going into separate classes, 
such as the Luhn algorithm for credit card validation.
> You should learn how Zend compiler and PHP code loading and execution 
> works before making such guesses.
Very, true, only I don't know how to learn about these things :-)

> Zend compiler separates compilations in 3 parts: global code, global 
> functions and classes. If you move code from a class to create another 
> with separated validation code, eventually you force a separate 
> compilation process for that class with all the execution and memory 
> overhead that incurs.
Wouldn't using PHP-Accelerator get around this problem?

Peter

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