On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:14:27 -0600, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > Why is it faster? And why should you avoid using double quotes? > > > > ..."Scripts using single quotes run slightly faster because the PHP > parser can include the string directly. Double quoted strings are > slower because they need to be parsed."... > > Quoted from: > http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php?article=using-strings&kin > d=t&id=1399&open=1&anc=0&view=1 > [/snip] > > I try to use both types of quotes in the proper circumstance. Having > said that, I came to computing in the age where we worried over CPU > cycles, but I don't see how in this day and age the difference between > the two would even matter. Even on a high load site the difference > between the two would be negligible. > Well....i have a 30k script, with double i get 8 or 9 seconds, with sigle i get 0.05 or 0.08 seconds. The script basically made a lot of querys, its part of a user manager module of a system im writing. Remember, the hole world is not US or EU....i live in argentina and my web server is a PIII 550Mhz 128mb and if you count that almost the half of the people got a 56k dialup connection....I think that in some cases it does make difference. sorry my english....too taired to worry meatbread. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
