Help: Speed optimization off variables

[Anon]

Hi there,

I've once read an article about the different
methods of building a variable which contains
a large web-page. The lines are concatenated
subsequently by statements like

$var .= "some string";

or by

$var = $var."some string";

There was also some stacking and output
buffering involved in this. The stacking
method was something like:

function stack_string($string){
global $stack;
array_push($stack,$string);
}

and later

function print_string($stack){
for ($i=0;$i < count($stack); $i++){
print $stack[$i];
}
}

I am really interested in that article but
my net-wide search did not succeed so
far. I'd be really glad if somebody could
point me to this article.

Regards

Wolfgang

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What exactly are you planning to do with this zany-looking method?

[Anon]

Which of the methods do you mean ;-))))

I am collecting a large amount of HTML code
based on different conditions returned by
several functions.

I am looking for methods to speed up script
execution.

The mentioned article compared different
methods of output collecting and the
differences under certain circumstances,
which I do not recall, where quiet large.

W.

[[deleted]]

Ah I see.

I gues you'll get the best performance by either just printing when appropriate or by using output buffering, depends on how 'expensive' an output command is on your platform.

[Anon]

;-))) Well ... that's what I thought, too.

Therefore I was interested in that
article because it went deeper into
the guts of it all with benchmarks
and such ...

Would help me in the current case and
improve my overall knowledge, too ;-)))

If nobody knows that articele, I try
hunting it down again ...

But thanks for helping anyways ...

W.