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Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files?

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On 2012-09-14, J. Frank Parnell <juglesh@gmail.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:
><?php
> if ((file_exists($funccache)) AND  (@$_GET['recache']!=true)){
> 	include $funccache;//just an array of the files names, see below.
> }else{
> 	$incs = glob($funcspath."*.php") ;
> 	$ra = var_export($incs,true);
> 	$put = @file_put_contents($funccache,"<?php \$incs = $ra;  ?>");
> }
> foreach ($incs as $i) {
> 		require $i;
> }
> ?>	
>
> 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?

You're only making your script unnecessarily complicated. Just use the
include() function to only include the functions you need.

If you have performance issues -- which you shouldn't -- consider
installing a PHP accelerator.

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How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? "J. Frank Parnell" <juglesh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-14 12:35 -0700
  Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2012-09-14 19:41 +0000
    Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? "J. Frank Parnell" <juglesh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-14 15:24 -0700
      Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-14 19:24 -0400
        Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-09-15 01:43 +0200
          Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-14 21:45 -0400
            Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? "J. Frank Parnell" <juglesh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-16 10:50 -0700
              Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-16 17:45 -0400
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? "J. Frank Parnell" <juglesh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-16 16:00 -0700
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-16 20:17 -0400
  Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-09-14 19:44 +0000
  Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-15 08:08 +0200
    Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 09:14 -0400
      Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-15 23:41 +0200
        Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 18:06 -0400
          Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-16 00:10 +0200
            Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 18:21 -0400
              Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-16 00:39 +0200
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 18:45 -0400
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-16 00:59 +0200
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-16 00:09 +0100
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 19:19 -0400
                Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-15 19:27 -0400
            Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-15 23:38 +0100
        Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-09-16 09:37 -0500
          Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-09-16 17:32 +0200
            Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-09-16 17:46 -0400

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