Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode string iterator performance

Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>>
>> The real test however would be random character access, rather then 
>> sequential scans from start to end :-).
> 
> How often do you access random characters in a string vs. sequential 
> scans? Which is the more likely scenario in PHP scripts? I think it's 
> the latter.
> 
> -Andrei
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I think the most common usage would be grabbing one or a few characters 
and then going to do something else... if that happens alot, it will 
look more like like "random" string access than sequential scans.

Regards,
Stefan