Re: How expensive are function_exists() calls?

From: Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:07:07 +0000
Subject: Re: How expensive are function_exists() calls?
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Hello Mike! Depending on how you'd define expensive, it may variate. Normally, on websites function_exists(x) ain't expensive. Altrought function_exists needed 0.000077009201049805 seconds to execute. Do you think, that's pretty expensive ? Your, -- (c) Kenan Sulayman Freelance Designer and Programmer Life's Live Poetry 2009/3/4 mike <mike503@gmail.com> > I am trying to figure out a strategy for multiple output formats on a > site, and it seems like I can have functions defined by default, but > have them defined -after- I've included the targetted format first. > > However that would require > > file1.php: > > function foo() {} > > file2.php > > if(!function_exists('foo')) { > function foo() {} > } > > Is this a very expensive thing to do? There would be a good number of > functions that would be leveraging this. Is it a no-no? or is it > pretty cheap? > > Thanks > - mike > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >

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