On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:38:55PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
So what I don't understand is what how bind_columns is dereferencing this in
such a manner as to allow me to refer to the columns as scalars WITHOUT
showing seeming to show any overhead.
The magic of aliasing. Watch:
: another performance question.
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:38:55PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
So what I don't understand is what how bind_columns is dereferencing
this in
such a manner as to allow me to refer to the columns as scalars WITHOUT
showing seeming to show any overhead.
The magic
-- Steve Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/26/01 10:08:23 -0500
dereferencing in the code (is there no overhead to the binding of
columns?).
Binding uses pre-allocated space to return the result and is
usually faster. fetch_blah calls have to allocate space for
the result, which is what
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Subject: Re: another performance question.
-- Steve Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/26/01 10:08:23 -0500
dereferencing in the code (is there no overhead to the binding of
columns?).
Binding uses pre-allocated space to return the result and is
usually faster. fetch_blah
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:59:28PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
Not the case in this question. What is being returned is the reference -
values other than a single reference are not being copied. This is how
fetchrow_arrayref works as well - only a reference to the array is returned,
but when
