> -----Original Message----- > From: bk@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bk@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yeti > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:58 AM > To: Andrew Ballard > Cc: PHP General list > Subject: Re: Internationalisation and MB strings > > Oh right. Doing 1 measurement only is not even worth a theory. > > Well, I'm wondering how much PHP can speed that result up, since we are > calling the same function with the same parameter 10000 times. Wouldn't > it > be even more realistic if we called it with changing strings? ---8<--- snip > > I ran this script several times, and the results below are fairly > typical: > > > > MB_STRLEN took : 0.054733037948608 milliseconds > > > > STRLEN took : 0.037568092346191 milliseconds > > > > > > The multi-byte function is slower, but not even by a factor of 2 on > my > > development machine. 10000 * 0.02 = 200 milliseconds. I don't think you've got anything to worry about... unless counting to "2" is an unacceptable wait for your process. :) Todd Boyd Web Programmer
