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		girvo 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator > so they are more memory efficient They can be. It depends on the language, interpreter, compiler, and whether you do anything with those intermediate variables and the optimiser can get rid of them.

r34 12 days ago [–]

I thought we are talking about PHP8.5:)

girvo 11 days ago | [–]

Ah, I thought we were talking more generally about PL constructs that let you avoid intermediate variables, apologies :)

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