Re: Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:07:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays? | ||
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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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Flip side of the coin: also no point in wasting 10 hours accomplishing
something that can be done in 2 on a management screen that rarely
gets used. :)
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