Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard var.c

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > AZ>> Why not use zend_str_tolower()? > > Because this is faster. calling memcpy and then strtolower makes two > passes on the string, while this one makes one pass. It could be optimized > too, I believe (by using potinters instead of indexes), so if anybody > wants to, please do it. zend_str_tolower() doesn't call memcmp(), it replaces the characters in-place. Since it does use pointers, it's in fact faster than your code. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/