> -----Original Message----- > From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:46 AM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: Ilia Alshanetsky; Johannes Schlüter; [email protected]; PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4 > > > Yes I agree. We may be able to skip this check for interned strings which > would be nice and potentially eliminate performance impact somewhat but it's > something that would need to be looked into. It's non-trivial but doable > (need to > add a flag for interned strings whether they have a zero byte or not). > > I'm not too worried about the performance impact here. Functions that need > these non-null strings need them because they are about to access the file > system in some way. The time it takes to check for nulls compared to the file > system access time is so small that I think we can safely ignore performance > issues.
Yes I thought about that too after I sent the email :) It is negligible compared to the expensive filesystem operation. Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
