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<h1>Design and Architectural Goals<a class="headerlink" href="#design-and-architectural-goals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Our goal for CodeIgniter is maximum performance, capability, and
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simplifying at every step of the development process, rejecting anything
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<li><strong>Dynamic Instantiation.</strong> In CodeIgniter, components are loaded and
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controllers and views you design will determine what is invoked.</li>
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system rely on each other. The less components depend on each other
the more reusable and flexible the system becomes. Our goal was a
very loosely coupled system.</li>
<li><strong>Component Singularity.</strong> Singularity is the degree to which
components have a narrowly focused purpose. In CodeIgniter, each
class and its functions are highly autonomous in order to allow
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