Re: Why is chdir() so slow?

From: Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:58:05 +0000
Subject: Re: Why is chdir() so slow?
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Hi, Yes, I know they do different things but I'm wondering if chdir makes a call to the OS or does it writes the value to a CWD variable inside the PHP engine? ________________________________ From: Jonathan Tapicer <tapicer@gmail.com> To: Raymond Irving <xwisdom@yahoo.com> Cc: PHP-General List <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 9:08:36 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Why is chdir() so slow? You know that getcwd and chdir do different things, right? Why are you comparing them? Jonathan On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Raymond Irving <xwisdom@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been doing some test with getcwd() and chdir() and it has turned out that calling > getcwd() is much faster than chdir() > > Any ideas why this is so? Is it the OS? > > Tested on Windows XP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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