Smarty

macblack77 · Smarty Rookie Joined: 29 Mar 2016 Posts: 13

noob question,

Just curious, but is assignByRef more efficient than assign?

Does smarty access the byref variables directly as opposed to taking a copy of them when you use assign?

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

Read documentation. It is only required, when you have very specific needs. Which is an exceptionally rare case in real world applications.
For all other intents and purposes, you must use Smarty::assign().

macblack77 · Smarty Rookie Joined: 29 Mar 2016 Posts: 13

I read the documentation before posting and if you note I did say "just curious".

I was asking if byref was more efficient?

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

No, it is a http://lmgtfy.com/?q=premature+optimization

macblack77 · Smarty Rookie Joined: 29 Mar 2016 Posts: 13

I didn't get that?? Are you saying you agree with me?

I thought it was a perfectly valid question?

Surely there's an efficiency gain (stack/heap processing) in only passing the reference to smarty for vars as opposed to Smarty creating its own copy of each variable?