On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:13, Ford, Mike wrote:
> > abs():
> >
> > $doo = -20;
> > for ($i = 1; $i < 1000; $i++) {
> > $dah = abs($doo);
> > }
>
> That's not a valid benchmark, since only on the first pass through the loop
> is $doo negative.
I'm not sure what you m
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> > -Original Message-
> > From: Jason Wong
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> > On Monday 27 December 2004 12:40, Richard Lynch wrote:
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> On Monday 27 December 2004 12:40, Richard Lynch wrote:
>
> > If you want to mimic the behaviour of abs (a
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:16:21 +0800, Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ternary:
>
>$doo = -20;
>for ($i = 1; $i < 1000; $i++) {
>$dah = ($doo < 0) ? - $doo : $doo;
>}
>
> abs():
>
>$doo = -20;
>for ($i = 1; $i < 1000; $i++) {
>$dah = abs($doo);
>
On Monday 27 December 2004 12:40, Richard Lynch wrote:
> If you want to mimic the behaviour of abs (allowing for positive numbers)
> and performance was an issue, that:
> $x = ($x < 0) ? - $x : $x;
>
> is most likely faster than abs()
Having nothing better to do I decided to benchmark this:
tern
I've managed to delete the original post, so apologies in advance if I got
the Subject wrong and/or am missing the threading headers.
Plus, this post isn't even strictly necessary, and could be construed as
pedantic. Oh well.
To change -40 to 40, http://php.net/abs is probably the best answer fr
Nevermind,
I have been using if($number<0) { //negative number...
but it wasn't working correctly due to a str_replace statement that
removing zeros which was screwing it up
ok
later
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