On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 14:43 +0100, Stuart wrote:
> 2009/5/23 Afan Pasalic <a...@afan.net>:
> > short hack works like a charm!
> > :-)
> 
> It may work but output buffers are relatively expensive. The eval
> function will return the value the eval'd code returns, so just stick
> a return statement at the end of the string you're eval'ing.

Where di you hear that output buffers are expensive? I have found the
following:

<?php

    ob_start();

    for( $i = 0; $i < 10000000; $i++ )
    {
        echo 'blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah';
    }

    $foo = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();

?>

To consistently be faster than the following:

<?php

    for( $i = 0; $i < 10000000; $i++ )
    {
        $foo .= 'blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah';
    }

?>

However, if I do the following:

<?php

    for( $i = 0; $i < 10000000; $i++ )
    {
        ob_start();
        echo 'blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah';
        $foo .= ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
    }

?>

The run-time is approximately 3 times slower... not exactly expensive
considering it incorporates the concatenation as well as the output
buffering.

Cheers,
Rob.
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