Text Statistics is a PEAR package to calculate statistics for documents including readability scores. One of its more intensive operations is calculating the number of syllables in a word, which is calculated through a number of regexps. We can improve its performance on moderate-large documents by caching word objects.
<?php
require_once "Text/Word.inc";
class WordFactory {
static $objects;
function Word($name) {
$nobject = &self::$objects['Word'][$name];
if (!$nobject) {
$nobject = new Word($name);
}
return $nobject;
}
}
?>
