Re: The way the engine works?

Antony Dovgal wrote:

Yup, the language stole ~32Kb of your memory and used it to speedup the allocation of small chunks.

Ok, in my attempt to send a sane looking example, I cleaned up the problem. <?php $str = "This is a medium length string"; $start = memory_get_usage(); for($x=1;$x<=1000000;$x++){

     $var = $str." ".$x.": (3.5): ".time()."\n";

} $first_growth = number_format(memory_get_usage() - $start); $start = memory_get_usage(); for($x=1;$x<=1000000;$x++){

     $var = "$str $x: (3.5): ".time()."\n";

} $growth = number_format(memory_get_usage() - $start); echo "first growth: $first_growth\nsecond growth: $growth\n"; ?> The introduction of $x into the string makes the difference. first growth: 892 second growth: 3,955,068 -- Brian Moon ------------- http://dealnews.com/ It's good to be cheap =)