[nflug] PHP (switch vs. nested if)

[Roelant Ossewaarde]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Rob Dege wrote:

>
> nah, this won't work, since the arrays I'm referencing are already  
> two-dimensional arrays.  I mean I could create one large 2-dim  
> array, and pass that to each page every single time, but that would  
> take up more memory than it would need to.
>
> Each 2-dim array has at least 5 entries.  So that would be over 400  
> entries in on big array.  Seems bloated to load that big of an  
> array when I only need 5 entries from it.

Not at all. Really, trust memory management to your compiler and  
interpreter, they're better at it. A 400-entry array is not  
necessarily slower to access than a 10-entry array. I have only one  
pair of keys, and I lose it all the time; however, I have many, many,  
books, and I don't lose track of them at all, because they are well  
organized.

Someone once told me, size doesn't matter... She must've been an  
experienced programmer too.