Internet Strategy Guide

Matthew Turland is presenting. If you haven't heard of him, you're a nub (k, not really but I really wanted to put that in a post somewhere). He's an auther for php|architect and author of Web Scrapign with PHP, a contributer to Zend Framework, lead developer of Phergie. So yeah, kind of a big deal. He currently works at Synacor which provides internet solutions to ISPs, media companies and advertisers.

The biggest change to SPL in 5.3 is the containers. Why containers? Arrays aren't always great. The underlying hash table algorithm is not always ideal for the task at hand.

We'll be looking at a lot of benchmarks. The code is available on github so you can compare the performance results for yourself.

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