oh, wow! so this was already implemented in 5.4, and without introducing some kind of base-class to enable it. who knew... fantastic, thanks for the info!
case closed :-) - Rasmus From: "Gustavo Lopes" <glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt> To: internals@lists.php.net Cc: Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:13:52 +0200 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] memory usage ouchy On Mon, 21 May 2012 20:47:51 +0200, Rasmus Schultz <ras...@mindplay.dk> wrote: I just realized something that never occurred to me before - every property is actually stored as a hash. This test-script will demonstrate: [snip] The test-script contains no information about the version of PHP you're using. Starting with PHP 5.4, the properties hash table is only created if you're storing dynamic properties (i.e. assigning undeclared properties) or if it otherwise requested. Otherwise, they're stored in an array.
