Re: Associative Array Benchmarking
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:53:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Associative Array Benchmarking | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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* Thus wrote bskolb:
>
> Benchmark results:
>
> Function assocArrayWithQuotes() ran 500000 times in 4.4331 seconds.
> Function assocArrayWithoutQuotes() ran 500000 times in 6.4170 seconds.
>
> The only difference in the two functions is the use of quotes, one with and
> the other without.
That is because the one without the quotes, php first checks to
see if a constant is defined with that name, if not then the
literal value will be used.
Curt
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