Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-30 Thread Kyle Terry
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

RE: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-30 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-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

[PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-29 Thread Clancy
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:50:18 +, nrix...@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) wrote: Clancy wrote: Also what the relative virtues of defining the same set of fields for every contact, as against either defining only the fields which actually hold values, as in the following examples? a:

Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-29 Thread Paul M Foster
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

Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-29 Thread Eric Butera
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

[PHP] Re: Hidden costs of PHP arrays?

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan Rixham
Clancy wrote: Also what the relative virtues of defining the same set of fields for every contact, as against either defining only the fields which actually hold values, as in the following examples? a: $contacts['clancy']['home_address'] = 'jkjkjk'; $contacts['clancy']['home_phone'] = 0123