Support / use SplFixedArray?

Rob C

unread,

Jun 21, 2013, 3:19:33 AM6/21/13

to phpc...@googlegroups.com

Hey, just curious what your thoughts are on using and/or supporting SplFixedArray instead of PHP arrays in some parts of the library?

I'm sure it's a lot of work all around, and there are a variety of ways to implement. Obviously, this might cause compatibility issues with older versions of PHP and also would not work on servers that are missing the library.

I could help code some of it, but .. figure it's worth talking about before any work is done. What do you think.

Tyler Hobbs

unread,

Jun 21, 2013, 6:45:06 PM6/21/13

to phpc...@googlegroups.com

I'm not convinced that there would be huge performance gains from using SplFixedArray, but you're welcome to try. In terms of implementation details, I would suggest adding new return format similar to ARRAY_FORMAT, which should avoid backwards-incompatible breaks.

phpcassa only supports PHP 5.3+, so you don't have to worry about older versions of php.

--
Tyler Hobbs
DataStax

prathap kumar

unread,

Feb 6, 2014, 2:24:05 PM2/6/14

to phpc...@googlegroups.com

Hi

The main differences between a SplFixedArray and a normal PHP array is that the SplFixedArray is of fixed length and allows only integers within the range as indexes. The advantage is that it allows a faster array implementation