Re: Re: drastic memory consumption with a sequenceofexceptions

Yup, there's no difference. What Wez said makes sense: > foreach() 'copies' $data, and it's the copy that isn't going away. > > --Wez." Ron "Markus Fischer" <markus@fischer.name> schreef in bericht news:42FA0FBA.3040208@fischer.name... > This is also apply if you use the reference operator? > > foreach ($data as &$lines) { .. > > ? > > - Markus > > Wez Furlong wrote: > > foreach() 'copies' $data, and it's the copy that isn't going away. > > > > --Wez. > > > > On 8/10/05, Ron Korving <r.korving@xit.nl> wrote: > > > >>"Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> schreef in bericht > >>news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0508101456350.3884@localhost... > >> > >>>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>My situation is parsing a number of XML-reports. If parsing goes wrong > >> > >>in > >> > >>>>any way (XML parsing fails, XML validation fails, database insertion > >> > >>fails), > >> > >>>>I want to throw an exception. There's a script that batch-processes > >> > >>these > >> > >>>>files. I want to collect exceptions and give that feedback to the user. > >> > >>I > >> > >>>>wouldn't consider this bad practice myself (but of course, I'm not very > >>>>objective in this situation). > >>> > >>>You can still clean up your memory before throwing the exception... > >> > >>Actually, no. Even this shows the problem: > >> > >> foreach ($data as $line) > >> { > >> unset($data); > >> throw new Exception("error"); > >> } > >> > >> > >>>>Even if I'm wrong about that, I'm not the only PHP-user and it's > >>>>my > >> > >>humble > >> > >>>>opinion that the engine should be solid enough to deal with this. > >>> > >>>It's not easy at all, it would basically mean a full rewrite of the > >>>engine's refcounting/garbage collection system, and also redoing all > >>>extensions to use this mechanism. I think that's a bit too much to ask > >>>just so that you don't get a leak if you're doing something > >>>'weird'. > >> > >>I never thought it would be easy. And I'm not saying it must be fixed. But I > >>do think, more on the philosophical level as a programmer, that the engine > >>"should" be able to deal with that situation. > >> > >>Ron > >> > >>-- > >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > > >