large string...

example code

function myfunc1()
{
return myfunc2();
}

function myfunc2()
{
return myfunc3();
}

function myfunc3()
{
return very_large_string; // let's say that very large string is 30kb of data
}


print myfunc1();

The question is, would these 30Kb of data be copied into each function wasting resources or only reference to these data would be propagated to myfunc1? PHP version is 5.0.x

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