Hm, I thought about that way - technically it was indeed a way to go since I
don't want to perform this action everytime but only for testing purposes
(so time doesn't matter).
But aren't arrays in PHP internally stored in a hash-like system which's
size doesn't have to be equal to the sum of it's content?
I'm more interested in how many kbytes of RAM my array is using than the
size in bytes of it's content...
But thank you anyway for helping me!
best regards
Stefan Rusterholz
Had the same problem not long ago and I didn't find a simple solution
either. My solution at the time was the painfully slow one - walking the
array and storing strlen for both key and value. Since you have a large
array, this probably doesn't do for you.
A faster but less accurate solution would be storing
round(strlen(serialize($array))*$coefficient), where you should
approximate
$coefficient for your average array (the less the average array element
size, the smaller the coefficient).
I know, these are both rudimentary and ugly solutions but I didn't find
any
better - these are the solutions I considered when I had the same problem.
Bogdan
Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
Hi
I have a rather large array in my script and I was interested how much
memory it uses. Is there a way to get the size of an array in bytes?
BTW: I did RTFM and didn't find an accomidating function, so if there is
one, please point me to it...
TIA
Stefan Rusterholz
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