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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:49:45 +0100
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To: Samuel ROZE <samuel.roze@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP modules (pecl) and PHP codes (pear)
From: info@tyrael.hu (Ferenc Kovacs)

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Samuel ROZE <samuel.roze@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll have to develop a function like "parse_url", but "parse_referrer"
> which provides informations about the URL (the referrer): provider,
> keywords, type of search (search, cache, translation, ...), real page
> url...
>
> I don't really know how I'll do that: using a .ini file like
> "get_browser" ? I think it will be too complicated and difficult to
> build.. but maybe it is a good idea ? Or create it in C as an
> extension...
>
> I want to know if compiled extensions in C are really faster than an PHP
> function ?
>
> Thanks !
> Samuel.
>
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As fas as I know, yes obviously faster, but I think that in your case
it doesn't worth the extra time to build this functionality in C,
because it is mostly regex based string parser, so the overall
overhead is minimal.

Tyrael