Forums / Developer / Best Practice: many extensions, or one extension
John Moritz
Tuesday 30 September 2008 4:22:20 am
Hello,
i just want to ask, if its better to make 5 extensions or better 1 extension which includes everything?Is there a speed loss when i integrate to much extensions?
André R.
Tuesday 30 September 2008 6:00:18 am
To some degree there is a slight speed loss, but unless you use a slow filesystem (windows / mac / nfs) or a lot of extension(~20) you won't really notice it much. Some of the speed loss is fixed in 4.1 though, by introducing a setting to turn of modified time checking on ini files.
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Piotrek Karaś
Friday 17 October 2008 7:53:51 am
Hi,
Basically, when we aim at generic solutions, we try to isolate tool functionalities and this leads to many extensions. Otherwise, when we implement a one-time client-dedicated solution, this usually grows bigger within one extension folder.
We have some implementations that have 20+ extensions. We haven't noticed any significant problems at this point, but that also much depends on site optimization and cache-layer. Also, the more dynamic content you have, the more important this issue I would expect to be.
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