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. > ughh, no more syntatic sugar, php is sweet enough how it is :) -Sterling > -- > Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/) > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Sterling Hughes <sterling@bumblebury.com> Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.edwardbear.org/