On Monday 23 July 2007, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't get it, why not do this?
> >
> > foreach ( $array AS $row ) {
> > foreach ( $row AS $k => $v ) {
> > if ( ! is_array($v) ) {
> > echo "{$k} -- {$v}<br/>\n";
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > Maybe I am missing the point... ???
>
> Indeed, whilst your method is simplistic it leaves many copies of the array
> dangling in memory. Every time you call foreach it creates a copy of the
> array internally. SPL iterators do things differently and know only one
> element at a time. More can be seen at
> http://phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-SPL.html
>
> so the final solution was using a foreach, however, using a foreach on an
> SPL iterator object implicitly calls the inner iterator giving us all the
> SPL goodness in memory savings.
Isn't that what garbage collection is for?
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