note 95958 deleted from class.splobjectstorage by danbrown

Note Submitter: David@OnDevice ---- I should have qualified with some test results- so I made some comparisons- and was shocked. But first, the caveats- I'm not going to spam this entry with my PHP implementation, so there is a certain amount of trust involved on your behalf that its a lean efficient implementation. Second, that the test itself was well produced. Taking an array of 5000 unique integers (generated before benchmark timing), I tested SplObjectStorage and my php HashMap by iterating through the 5000 unique integers and: i. Adding a scalar key and value to the target collection ii. Testing for the key in the collection iii. Getting the value for the scalar key iv Removing the key With error_reporting set to E_ERROR (suppressing warnings from SplObjectCollection), the results were: HashMap average: 0.0030831205844879 seconds SplObjectCollection average: 6.0224056243896E-6 Thats pretty impressive on part of SplObjectCollection! The only time that my hashmap outperformed spl was with error_reporting set to E_ALL- as would be expected because I have implemented an error handler. Using @ and SplObjectCollection using ArrayAccess notation does nothing to suppress the warnings however- that is, <?php $spl= new SplObjectStorage; @$spl[0]= ''; // warnings still triggered ?> Will SplObjectCollection suppress warnings about scalar keys in the future? I hope so....