Larry, i havent dug into the code or the post much cause im coding away today, but i did drop you test script on a box of mine and run it. for what its worth, heres the results: nathan@devel ~/working/www $ php testBench.php Testing __call() Native Method: 8.62859416008 seconds Magic Method: 15.2616789341 seconds Testing __call() with sub-function Native Method: 8.45631313324 seconds Magic Method: 31.9451780319 seconds the native method actually ran faster the second time.. -nathan
