Posted by Colin McKinnon on 10/05/06 19:20

quamis@gmail.com wrote:

>
> the problem is that with large files(>8Mb) i get a script error(Fatal
> error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded ).
> i acess every character in the buffer with
<snip>

> can i do something to speed things up?

Not without resolving the problem of why you need to examine each char.

I would suggest that you before commencing the processing you put:

set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(); // in case your browser timeout.

....then in the read loop but ouitside the char loop provide a machanism for
stopping runaways:

if ((rand(0,20)==10) && (file_exists("break")) {
break;
}

C.

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