AW: [PEAR-DEV] Update: HTTP_Download
| From: | Stephan Schmidt | Date: | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:20:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | AW: [PEAR-DEV] Update: HTTP_Download | ||
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Hi,
> I'm using references, because sometimes you want to pull a 50MB (or
> bigger) file from the database and you don't want PHP to internally copy
> this data. $data is now mandatory, which seems fine because why would
> anybody use setData(null). Perhaps there could be a method called
> unsetData to clear any raw data in the object if this functionality is
> needed.
As long as the data is not modified, no copy will be created. AFAIK the code
should be a bit faster without the reference...
Stephan