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krisanalfa / macosx-install-php-oracle-oci8-pdo_oci.md
Last active January 11, 2024 22:00 — forked from gido/macosx-install-php-oracle-oci8.md
Install OCI8 and / or PDO_OCI on OSX via Brew

Installation

This procedure is tested on Mac OS X 10.10.5 with Developpers tools installed (xCode).

PHP 5.6 installed with Homebrew.

Preparation

Download the following files from Oracle website (yes, you need to create an account and accept terms):

@dearaujoj
dearaujoj / remove_git_tag
Created October 22, 2013 10:02
git remove tag locally and remote
git tag -d TagName && git push origin :refs/tags/TagName
@chrisle
chrisle / gist:2252209
Created March 30, 2012 15:15
CURL as GoogleBot 2.1
curl --user-agent "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)" -v $@
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nikic / objects_arrays.md
Last active April 12, 2024 17:05
Post explaining why objects often use less memory than arrays (in PHP)

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't: