note 45743 deleted from function.str-pad by danbrown

Note Submitter: giorgio dot balestrieri at mail dot wind dot it ---- str_pad vs. sprintf 2nd round :) After to have seen Rex and Squeegee results, I've ran the code again, using different OSs and PHP version. Here my results: OpenBSD & PHP 4.3.4 str_pad test started, please wait... str_pad cycle completed in 88 seconds sprintf test started, please wait... sprintf cycle completed in 69 seconds Windows XP & PHP 5.0.0 str_pad test started, please wait... str_pad cycle completed in 33 seconds sprintf test started, please wait... sprintf cycle completed in 27 seconds RedHat Linux 7.3 & PHP 4.3.3 str_pad test started, please wait... str_pad cycle completed in 63 seconds sprintf test started, please wait... sprintf cycle completed in 43 seconds sprintf seem to be faster yet, but considering Rex and Squeegee test, this cannot be considered always true... somebody want try more? Only to understand why... :)