Re: bug in zend_API.c (with patch)

On Sat, 7 Mar 2003, Eric Lambart wrote: > > Adding strtolower calls will only slow down the whole language. > but my > point is the overhead involved cannot possibly rival the amount already > created by the zend_str_tolower() calls within zend_execute.c, which is > surely encountered far more often in everyday use of PHP. > > Does what I am suggesting make sense, now? Yes, but simple maths suggests that adding a strtolower call when building the initial hash for each of 2837 functions is surely slower than not having it :) (this is just for extensions in the core). You have to remember that this cost is incurred each time php is loaded; a big performance hit for people using CGI for example. > But as I have seen no warnings or admonitions about using one or more > upper case letters in a function or class name in the available > extension-writing documentation (either online, or in the book ... Consider this thread a warning ;-) --Wez.