[asterisk-dev] Status of another channel from AGI

[Paul]

Steven wrote:

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>Performance and security is not special to any interface of asterisk.
>Performance isn't usually a quality of AGI that is taken really
>seriously. Look at the many applications Tilghman has written so that
>one doesn't need to spawn out to AGI to accomplish certain tasks. He has
>mentioned before that he is trying to eliminate most needs for AGI and
>help keep the development in the dialplan. 
>
If I were to take an existing dialplan and simply change all existing
AGI invocations to use macros would it affect performance other than
startup and reload when the macros are parsed? That would allow me to
replace AGI with applications by simply changing a macro.