This is not particularly pretty. There is an easier way to do this to yield the same speedup, without having to hard code a computed hash. Give me a sec...

What do you make of #3897 please?

@GrahamCampbell Yeah I like it, I think I prefer this to expanded conditional:

$factory->define(App\User::class, function ($faker) {
    static $password = null;

    return [
        'username' => $faker->userName,
        'email' => $faker->safeEmail,
        'password' => $password ?: $password = bcrypt('secret'),
        'remember_token' => str_random(10),
    ];
});

Yeh, that looks prettier. Feel free to update your PR if you're happy with that, and I'll close mine. :)

Cool done 👍 Thanks for your input!

Seems like just static $password; would work too, since it assumes null by default. Prettier still?

$factory->define(App\User::class, function ($faker) {
    static $password;

    return [
        'username' => $faker->userName,
        'email' => $faker->safeEmail,
        'password' => $password ?: $password = bcrypt('secret'),
        'remember_token' => str_random(10),
    ];
});

Seems like just static $password; would work too, since it assumes null by default. Prettier still?

Yeh, but only on PHP, not on HHVM. I guess we don't care about HHVM anymore though, so .

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