eval - isn´t as slow as rumors about it
| From: | André Langhorst | Date: | Sun, 14 May 2000 19:36:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | eval - isn´t as slow as rumors about it | ||
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Hi,
just a little comment:
A few posts ago I was worried about being unable to reference in variable function calls (like $str="db->fooobj->woo"; $this->$str();).
But we found out that there´s only the eval() way to do it.
Eval isn´t as slow as public thinks. I tested now and I use it to fill multi-dim (between 2-6 dimensions) arrays based on a condition and I´m surprised, it´s fast. Perhaps a small note on eval()´s documentation, what eval() actually does and when it´s expected to be slow would help some users. I would provide my multi-dim-array-fill code snipplet as an advanced use of eval().
Regards,
andré