Re: [PHP] Re: Memory investigation

That's not really what I'm after.  Let me try an example:

function foo($id) {
   static $foos = array();

   if (empty($foos[$id]) {
     $foos[$id] = load_foo($id);
   }
   return $foos[$id];
}

When load_foo() is slow (e.g., lots of DB traffic or remote-server calls 
or whatever), such caching can have a significant performance boost. 
Sometime after foo() has been called 15 times from 30 places in code, 
when I get to the end of the request (or just every time I call foo() 
would be fine) I want to be able to do something like:

$cost = get_memory_used_by($foos);

So that I can determine how much memory that caching is costing me over 
the lifetime of the page, and determine if it's a worthwhile trade-off.

--Larry Garfield

[email protected] wrote:
> function check_memory_usage(&$memory)
> {
>     $memory[] = memory_get_usage();
>     return $memory;
> }
> 
> something like this?
> you can put it wherever you like and returns an array for further 
> processing. You could optionally add a second argument to set the index 
> to a name and check if the name exists to add 1 to the end of the name 
> so your indexes stay maintained.
>