maillog: 24/04/2005-11:00:54(+0200): Jan Kundrát types > D. Wokan wrote: > > Actually, I can understand avoiding unnecessary bit flipping. I've done > > that in databases on occasion. I'll write a SQL statement that checks > > if there are matching records for an update instead of just executing a > > statement that makes changes to those matching records. Depending on > > the likelihood of changes and the number of records to be changed, it > > was sometimes faster to pre-qualify an update instead of just doing it > > when it wasn't going to find any matches. > > Yep, but we're talking about C code, not about SQL queries. I'd of > course accept this explanation if it came from PHP devs at bugzilla, but > they didn't bother, which made me a bit surprised.
Don't be surprised. The exactly same explanation is at the bugreport
that you linked to in your last e-mail. I don't know if it is a php dev
who made it, but the address is @php.net. Here is the exact text:
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This is a non issue, the code avoids touching the mask if there
is nothing to change in it.
> And BTW, talking about speed - setting open_basedir is quite common
> among webhosters, so I think the code suggested in that bugreport will
> be faster in most cases.
>
> -jkt
>
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