Re: help on garbage collection function

Charles Killian wrote: > The garbage collection function below returns true a percentage of the time > depending what number you pass it. > Is there is a more efficient way to perform this task? > /* pass a number from 1 to 100: percentage of time this function returns > true. */ > function collect_garbage($percent){ > mt_srand((double) microtime() * 1000000); > if(in_array(mt_rand(1,100), range(1,$percent))) > return TRUE; > else > return FALSE; > } function collect_garbage($percent) { return mt_rand(1,100)<$percent; } and you only need to seed the generator once at the start of your script. (But I guess your script only needs to collect once per execution, anyway.) -- Simon Edwards Animated Design, Melbourne http://www.animated.net.au/ Ph: (03) 98850990