Re: turning strlen() into an opcode

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:17:43PM -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > I've made a small patch that turns strlen() into a statement executed by > the engine instead of a function. The reasoning is that something that > integral should probably be in the engine. I haven't done hard > benchmarking but it seems to improve performance of that particular > piece of code by about 25%. Feedback is welcome. I'd be more interested in seeing a more generic len() function (a la Python) that would return the length of the variable passed to it (the number of characters in a string, then number of elements in an array). Actually, I suppose extending count() to handle strings would be mostly equivalent. -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)