Sidestepping your original question, it sounds to me like you might benefit from using sqlite here, either direct to disk or using an in-memory sqlite database.
--Wez. On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:02:16 -0600, Matt W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need arrays this large because it's building a search index, which could > have 100s of millions of entries; and I want to buffer many entries in > arrays before doing writes... So even these "large" arrays are just working > on a small chunk at a time. :-) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php