CakePHP overload?

Question

It seems for me that objects in CakePHP are too much overloaded. I've output debug in my layout: debug($this); and I found 6 instances of HTML helper object:

[Html] => HtmlHelper Object
        ([tags] => Array
             ([meta] => <meta%s/>
              [metalink] => <link href="%s"%s/>
              [link] => <a href="%s"%s>%s</a>
              [mailto] => <a href="mailto:%s" %s>%s</a>
              [form] => <form %s>
              .........................................
              .........................................

Why is that and is it possible to reduce this quantity to 1 instance?

Answer 1

It's likely they're all references to the same instance.

To prove that they are, you could modify the helper constructor to include your own debug trace.