Not too sure about that.
In fact I made a simple script:
Code:
<?php
$ary = range(0, 50000);
$newary = $ary;
?>
So I am assigning a 50001-element array to another variable. There doesn't seem to be any speed issue on my PHP 5.2.0. It's just a desktop system.
But are you sure of the changes between PHP4 and PHP5 regarding variable/object assignment (copying) behaviour? As you cannot provide with the simplest version of the script that give the behaviour, I guess everything mentioned can just be a wild guess.
