note 100137 added to control-structures.declare

It's amazing how many people didn't grasp the concept here. Note the wording in the documentation. It states that the tick handler is called every n native execution cycles. That means native instructions, not including system calls (i'm guessing). This can give you a very good idea if you need to optimize a particular part of your script, since you can measure quite effectively how many native instructions are in your actual code. A good profiler would take that into account, and force you, the developer, to include calls to the profiler as you're entering and leaving every function. That way you'd be able to keep an eye on how many cycles it took each function to complete. Independent of time. That is extremely powerful, and not to be underestimated. A good solution would allow aggregate stats, so the total time in a function would be counted, including inside called functions. ---- Server IP: 212.150.176.151 Probable Submitter: 77.125.96.215 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/100137 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100137 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/100137 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php