[pmwiki-users] Request input on soon-coming FAST Data release

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:
> Could someone perhaps find a more definitive answer for this
> question?  My task list is a bit full at the moment... :-|

Sorry, my task list is overstuffed, too.
Actually I avoid by-reference arguments anyway. They tend to create all 
kinds of aliasing bugs, and that can get very, very messy and very, very 
quickly.

A quick check whether arrays are copied on write would be a loop with 
something like this:
   $a = array ($a, $a);
This creates two copies of $a on every step; if arrays are copied, 
memory usage should double at each step and hit the 8MB RAM limit very 
quickly, if they are copied on write, it should not be able to fill memory.

Regards,
Jo