Re: Fw: [PHP] PHP URL issues

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:31 +0100, Satyam wrote: > One more example of a questionable benchmark, not wrong but I wonder (as I > was doing in my previous) whether it is really representative. > > There are two main ways to handle strings, one is to malloc exactly the > required memory for each string and keep moving characters around from one > chunk of memory to another. If you append a single character to a string, > you would measure both, add their lengths plus whatever overhead your data > representation requires, malloc that much memory, move the characters from > each source and then free the memory occupied by the first. > > The other way to do it is to malloc memory in more or less fixed sizes and > include in the header of your variable a length field. You forgot realloc(). Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'