On 19 January 2011 20:05, la...@garfieldtech.com <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > So it sounds like the general answer is that if you pass a complex array to > a function by value and mess with it, data is duplicated for every item you > modify and its direct ancestors up to the root variable but not for the rest > of the tree. > > For objects, because of their "pass by handle"-type behavior you are > (usually) modifying the same data directly so there's no duplication. > > Does that sound correct? > > Related: What is the overhead of a ZVal? I'm assuming it's a fixed number > of bytes. >
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