Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:1978 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65897 invoked from network); 25 May 2003 08:25:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 25 May 2003 08:25:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 17669 invoked from network); 25 May 2003 08:24:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-laptop.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 May 2003 08:24:51 -0000 Reply-To: zeev@zend.com Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030525112316.04b180f0@localhost> X-Sender: zeev@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 11:24:48 +0300 To: Sterling Hughes Cc: internals@lists.php.net,andi@zend.com In-Reply-To: <1053792926.14443.667.camel@hasele> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Property access slowness From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) References: <1053792926.14443.667.camel@hasele> At 19:15 24.05.2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: >Hi, > >Property access with PHP5 is very slow compared to PHP4. The reason for >this is that property access must be verified *every* time. This seems >really unnecessary unless we're indirectly accessing properties. It has to be verified each time, because we're typeless, and can't do stuff like that in compile time. It's not related to indirect reference... Zeev