Re: [PHP4BETA] eval - isn´t as slow as rumors about it

| 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(). The only difference in eval() and regular code is that, the eval() code is directly read from a string and the rest from file (if not already read into a string). I haven't checked but I think its necessary to create a new buffer (yy_create_buffer(), default) to ask the lexer to parse it from a new location (a _very_ slight overhead). Enjoy! Faisal