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Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? [message #179141 is a reply to message #179140] Fri, 14 September 2012 19:41 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In comp.lang.php, J. Frank Parnell <juglesh(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have my 'funcs' dir, full of about 120 files, totaling ~800KB. A
> bunch of little utility functions. Here is basically how i include
> them:
....
> So, my question is, am I saving a significant amount of ram/cpu/time by
> keeping this cache of filenames or should I just glob the dir and
> include what's in there everytime?

The glob for a directory with 120 files will be nothing compared to
the time it takes php to include() 800KB worth of stuff. You might
want to consider only including what you really need. That will be
the bigger win.

Elijah
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glob on a very big directory (multiple thousands of files) is different
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