note 102384 deleted from language.operators.assignment by thiago

[email protected] Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:34:10 -0800
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Note Submitter: Peter, Moscow 

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Using $text .= "additional text"; instead of $text =  $text ."additional text"; can seriously enhance performance due to memory allocation efficiency. 

I reduced execution time from 5 sec to .5 sec (10 times) by simply switching to the first pattern for a loop with 900 iterations over a string $text that reaches 800K by the end.