On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:36:26PM +0200, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: > Hi, > > Someone have benchmarked SPL iterators vs for / foreach loops? What is the performance penalty? > > SPL is �interpreted wrapper� on the top of C++ STL (correct me if I am wrong), and I am sure it uses STL callbacks. But unlike C++, PHP scripts are interpreted, so pointer arithmetic will work only through Zend engine which for sure adds extra performance penalty. I think you're confused at what SPL is in php: http://php.net/spl Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
