mantisbt/mantisbt — comment on commit 46ff26ec28a251817c7fff9992efcb3501477655
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By rombert:

Maybe, maybe not :-) I actually prefer it this way because method arguments are consistent between the two invocations. That's what helped me commit the bug.

As for the actual performance, let's wait for someone to complain :-) My gut feeling is that 2-3 extra calls to get the current user id don't mean much compared to the overhead of SOAP calls.