Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Eric Butera eric.but...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote: snip As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast amount of thumb twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently simple request like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in the murky depths of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding to it unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it. Ahhh, finally someone who understands this principle. There's simply no reason to waste cycles if you don't have to. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Flip side of the coin: also no point in wasting 10 hours accomplishing something that can be done in 2 on a management screen that rarely gets used. :) I know this well. I also work in a framework where 8 nested foreaches can be found. Arrays are hardly expensive in my position... -- http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php No seriously... http://voom.me | EFnet #voom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
-Original Message- From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:02 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays? On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote: snip As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast amount of thumb twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently simple request like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in the murky depths of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding to it unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it. Ahhh, finally someone who understands this principle. There's simply no reason to waste cycles if you don't have to. If that's REALLY your bag, just plot all of your functions in Assembly, first! https://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelancers/project.cgi?id=121743701 3order=bid%20DESC I, for one, will keep efficiency in mind--but if I spend a couple extra cycles to relieve myself of an extra 20 lines of code, I think I'll sleep just fine. :) Now, if I was programming embedded systems or time-critical transaction processing software, that might be another story. (Then again, if that were the case, I might not be playing with an interpreted language to begin with.) My 2c. // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote: snip As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast amount of thumb twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently simple request like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in the murky depths of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding to it unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it. Ahhh, finally someone who understands this principle. There's simply no reason to waste cycles if you don't have to. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:10:16AM +1100, Clancy wrote: snip As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast amount of thumb twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently simple request like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in the murky depths of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding to it unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it. Ahhh, finally someone who understands this principle. There's simply no reason to waste cycles if you don't have to. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Flip side of the coin: also no point in wasting 10 hours accomplishing something that can be done in 2 on a management screen that rarely gets used. :) -- http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
