Re[2]: [PHP] Better way to store data in memory?

Hi Robert, Monday, July 23, 2007, 6:00:50 PM, you wrote: > What kind of data? Can't you just store it in the image? Or a working > copy of the image? Afraid not, I'm performing deformation on the data that requires a temporary location before rendering to the final image. If this was a straight single pixel change I could do it directly to the canvas as you suggest. > Is it possible for you to just store the entires you use? or are you > actually storing data for 307,200 elements? The 307,200 comes from a 640x480 image. I'm storing all elements at the moment. I can implement RLE to save on space, and was about to start doing that before I posted to the list to find out if I could avoid using an array at the same time. Depending on the image RLE itself will help considerably. > Sure, store it in a string and treat the string as a binary chunk. Looks like being the only way. It'd be nice to be able to create a memblock and literally poke/peek to it (safely of course, I'm not talking about arbitrarily writing to system memory or anything). I'll check Pear first, but if there's no pre-built lib for it then it might be time to create one. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"