Posted by Rik on 07/25/07 17:27

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:56:08 +0200, Sanders Kaufman <bucky@kaufman.net> =
=

wrote:

> Michael Fesser wrote:
>> .oO(Sanders Kaufman)
>>
>>> What you guys are doing here is - you're asking me to make the =

>>> application LESS efficient in order to conform to your herd mentalit=
y.
>> It is as efficient as yours, but more stable.
>
> So - making two function calls in PHP uses no more resources than maki=
ng =

> one? I don't buy it.

It is negligable. And it assures compatibility, as stated before: the fa=
ct =

you can call the constructor like a normal method in the present situati=
on =

is not something to be relied upon.

FYI:
<?php
class A{
var $foo;
function A(){
$this->foo =3D 'bar';
}
}
class B{
var $foo;
function B(){
$this->init();
}
function init(){
$this->foo =3D 'bar';
}
}
$start =3D microtime(true);
for($i =3D 1;$i<500;$i++){
$void =3D new A();
}
$middle =3D microtime(true);
for($i =3D 1;$i<500;$i++){
$void =3D new B();
}
$end =3D microtime(true);
echo 'A:',($middle-$start),"\n";
echo 'B:',($end-$middle),"\n";
?>

Result:
A:0.001378059387207
B:0.0017580986022949

And that is on my homebox, entirely not optimised for this kind of thing=
.. =

500 instantiations. I really don't care about the difference here..
-- =

Rik Wasmus

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