Fastest way to add prefix to array keys?

Question

What is the fastest way to add string prefixes to array keys?

Input

$array = array(
 \'1\' => \'val1\',
 \'2\' => \'val2\',
);

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Answer 1

If you don't want to use for loop you can do:

// function called by array_walk to change the $value  in $key=>$value.
function myfunction(&$value,$key) {
    $value="prefix$value";
}

$keys = array_keys($array);  // extract just the keys.
array_walk($keys,"myfunction"); // modify each key by adding a prefix.
$a = array_combine($keys,array_values($array)); // combine new keys with old values.

I don't think this will be more efficient than the for loop. I guess array_walk will internally use a loop and there is also the function call overhead here.