Re: php cli question

Per Jessen wrote:

J Ravi Menon wrote:

2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup, we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close file descriptiors, free up memory etc.. I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would have to do this manually?

Yes.

So 'unset($some_big_array)' or 'unset($some_big_object)' etc.. is the right way to go for non-resource based items? i.e. it needs to be explicitly done?

It's not quite like C - if you reassign something, the previous contents are automagically freed. I use unset() if I know it could be a while (hours) before it'll likely be reassigned, but it won't be used in the meantime.

Has anybody done a comparison of setting to null rather than unset'ing; does unset invoke the garbage collector instantly? i.e. is unset the best approach to clearing objects from memory quickly? Best, Nathan