Re: Re: Object methods - memory usage?

Heh, I should probably be mad at your reply - but I'm not, I'm objective enough to realize I could've replied the same way to a whining message like mine below. What I AM mad about is the reply of rest of the people on this list. And that's not because nobody replied to this question alone, but because this is the third (or so) question I ask on this list, and it's the third time I get no reply. And yes, I know I'm not paying for support so there's no guarantee for any, but c'mon, we're humans, you'd be annoyed as well if this happened to you, especially since there are few unanswered questions here. Anyway, I don't expect this message to gain me a reply to my original question - just wanted to explain myself for whoever has the curiosity to find out why I reacted like that. There. Bogdan John W. Holmes wrote:

OK.

-----Original Message----- From: Bogdan Stancescu [mailto:mgv@canad.ro] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:30 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Object methods - memory usage? Well, I guess my questions are just too stupid to deserve an answer anyway. Sorry for spamming you guys with my retarded questions! I'll refrain from asking any more questions on this list in the future,

since

I always seem to ask the wrong ones. Humbly yours, Bogdan Bogdan Stancescu wrote:

Hello! Ok, this is probably a very stupid question for someone who knows

how

these things work internally - but I don't, therefore I ask. :) When I instantiate an object, do the methods get instantiated as

well?

The question is asked memory-wise, not functionality-wise. More to

the

point, if I instantiate many identical objects with no class

variables

of their own but with many methods, will I get memory used up for

the

methods? If I were to guess, I'd say no extra memory is used for the methods since I don't think you can dynamically redefine class methods, so

there

would be no reason for duplicating them instead of simply

referencing

the class definition - but then again, I don't know how PHP works internally... Thank you! Bogdan

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