Re: Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:02:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays? | ||
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote:
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> As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast
> amount of thumb
> twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently
> simple request
> like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in
> the murky depths
> of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding
> to it
> unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it.
Ahhh, finally someone who understands this principle. There's simply no
reason to waste cycles if you don't have to.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster