Originally Posted by Xrystal
Thanks Phanx,
I remembered reading it somewhere in one of the patch notes in the past but I lost track of which way round it was being deprecated so my addons are a mixture of using _G and getglobal at the moment depending on when they were updated last and what my memory of it was at the time .. so yep, another set of changes to incorporate.
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The getglobal() is there so that old addons won't get arbitrarily busted. While there is a small over-head to using it, it's probably not noticeable in most addons. Considering it used to thunk into C it *has* to be faster than that.