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Subject: Small question about performance
From: klaussilveira@php.net (Klaus Silveira)

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Hello internals,

I've been involved in a discussion at the PHP Standards Group and we
recently had the following statement:

*Say you had a loop, and inside that loop you wanted to modify a param
> **update the key:**
> **foreach($a as $key => $val) {
> **   $a[$key] = someLong(functionCalls(hereThat($spanOver85Chars)));
> **}**
> **If this exceeded the line width, you would have to split things like
> **this over a few lines, storing the val temporarily in a zval's until
> **you reached your end computation. Therefore allocating more memory
> **iteratively. *


I'm curious about this. Can anyone confirm it or a benchmark should be
made?

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