Posted by Alvaro G. Vicario on 07/06/06 19:35

*** Markus Ernst escribió/wrote (Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:52:50 +0200):
> So I wonder which is more efficient - overwriting the array entry at
> every loop, or checking for it with the if statement.

A quick dirty benchmark with loops and microtime(), using the code you
posted, shows that assigning is slightly faster that testing, running from
command line. The saving ranges from 3% to 6%.

If you're interested in these issues you may like Xdebug and WinCacheGrind:

http://xdebug.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincachegrind/



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