On Tue, August 23, 2005 12:48 am, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> Kim Steinhaug (php list) wrote:
>> I'm using this method, works fine with 50mb+ files :
>>
>> if( $fd = fopen ($filepath, 'r')){
>> while(!feof($fd)) {
>> $buffer = fread($fd, 2048);
>> print $buffer;
>> }
>> fclose ($fd);
>> exit;
>> }
>
> Is there a reason why you assign the output of fread() to a variable
> and
> then print it? Why not just:
>
> print(fread($fd, 2048));
>
> which would be faster because it doesn't need to assign to a variable,
> wouldn't it? Maybe I'm missing something..
You're not missing anything, but a 2 K string buffer assignment/print
is probably not gonna save much...
Benchmark it both ways and see.
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