Re: Size of array in bytes

Hm, I thought about that way - technically it was indeed a way to go since I don't want to perform this action everytime but only for testing purposes (so time doesn't matter). But aren't arrays in PHP internally stored in a hash-like system which's size doesn't have to be equal to the sum of it's content? I'm more interested in how many kbytes of RAM my array is using than the size in bytes of it's content... But thank you anyway for helping me! best regards Stefan Rusterholz > Had the same problem not long ago and I didn't find a simple solution > either. My solution at the time was the painfully slow one - walking the > array and storing strlen for both key and value. Since you have a large > array, this probably doesn't do for you. > > A faster but less accurate solution would be storing > round(strlen(serialize($array))*$coefficient), where you should approximate > $coefficient for your average array (the less the average array element > size, the smaller the coefficient). > > I know, these are both rudimentary and ugly solutions but I didn't find any > better - these are the solutions I considered when I had the same problem. > > Bogdan > > Stefan Rusterholz wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a rather large array in my script and I was interested how much > > memory it uses. Is there a way to get the size of an array in bytes? > > BTW: I did RTFM and didn't find an accomidating function, so if there is > > one, please point me to it... > > > > TIA > > Stefan Rusterholz > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > >