Re: Re: Property access slowness
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Sun, 25 May 2003 14:52:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Property access slowness | ||
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> > One optimization that we could make is keep a pointer from each property
> > value to its corresponding property_info entry. The price of that is some
> > additional memory overhead, plus the fact that we'd have to give up the
> > standard zval sybmol table that objects today have, that can bring about
> > quite a few annoying side effects. It won't completely annihilate the
> > overhead either - because we'll still have to make the checks, we'd just be
> > saving the lookup.
> >
Just a note that you actually save more than a lookup. You save a
lookup "best case."
-Sterling
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