PHP bench - cycles

[lweek]

Hello everyone! This entry is for web developers or those who are playing around with PHP.

Every programmer is evolving in phases. Let's says that last phase is trying to make code as much efficient as possible. Part of this process is benching compiler to define what is most efficient solution. So here we go with some results.

Comments

[yamavu]

geez, that looked like fun. I should really try to boost into PHP sometime, but it doesn't really feel clean to me at all.

However thanks for the tips on the foreach loop, I'll try to remember when I might need it. Gladly some arrays in other languages cache their size internally so the call won't be Θ(n)=n²
However it's clean style.

[lweek]

I see, but if not PHP then what? Unfortunately there isn't much better solution. Java is a mess and also quite slow not metion problems with hosting and .NET is just NO as long as everything Microsoft is expensive as hell and not so safe. :-)