Annoying problem

Hi all. I'm using the latest CVS version of PHP4 to develop my new site. However I have a big performance problem. My template system gets all the non parsed templates from the database, parses them and put the result in a string. For testing this string is 63 kbytes big. Until now everything is ok and for a rather complex page it takes .25 seconds to get the final string, which is good. Now comes the strange part. All I want to do is send the string to the customer browser. All I do is : echo $Templates["Contenu_Nom"]["main"]; This simple function takes 3 seconds ! A printf takes about the same time. If I do : for ($i=0;$i<strlen($Templates["Contenu_Nom"]["main"]);$i++) echo $Templates["Contenu_Nom"]["main"][$i]; The page is generated in 1.4 seconds, which I believe is normal since this loop is ugly 8-p I filed a bug report quite some time ago but I never had this problem with php3 (but it takes quite much more time to parse my templates) I don't know what I can give you guys for testing, here is a sample script : <? function Begin_Chrono() { global $Debut_Chrono; $Debut_Chrono = microtime(); } function End_Chrono() { global $Debut_Chrono; $Fin = microtime(); $Temp = explode(" ",$Debut_Chrono); $Secondes_Debut = $Temp[1]; $Milli_Debut = $Temp[0]; $Temp = explode(" ",$Fin); $Secondes_Fin = $Temp[1]; $Milli_Fin = $Temp[0]; $Secondes = $Secondes_Debut - $Secondes_Fin; $Milli = $Milli_Debut - $Milli_Fin; $Temps = abs($Secondes + $Milli); echo "\n\n<!Elapsed time : $Temps>"; } Begin_Chrono(); for ($i=0;$i<63000;$i++) { $string .= "a"; } End_Chrono(); Begin_Chrono(); echo $string; End_Chrono(); ?> the result is : <!Elapsed time : 0.322759> lots of a <!Elapsed time : 3.104748> Yes my time functions are ugly 8) my configure line is : ./configure --disable-debug --with-apache=/home/blah/apache_1.3.9 --with-gd --with-mysql --enable-inline-optimization --disable-trans-sid Thanks for your help, this problem is here since beta1 ! Best Regards. J-F Mammet webmaster@softgallery.fr