| Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? [message #179143 is a reply to message #179141] |
Fri, 14 September 2012 22:24   |
J. Frank Parnell
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On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:41:35 PM UTC-7, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.lang.php, J. Frank Parnell <> wrote:
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>> 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:
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> ...
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> glob on a very big directory (multiple thousands of files) is different
When I do properties locally, on Win, it says size: 408KB, size on disc: 720KB. Compared to the wordpress 'includes' dir at 5Megs, doesnt seem like much, although i'm not sure if wp includes that whole dir, always. Would it be more efficient to concatenate my include files?
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