On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:31, Richard Heyes wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:02, Richard Heyes wrote: > > > >>Readability is in the eye of the beholder. > > > > > > But efficiency isn't ;) > > Try measuring the difference between the various methods over a > realistic number of iterations, eg. 100. There's little point in going > through ones code trying to "optimise" these things. Sure you might gain > a millisecond here or there, but so what? You'd have to have a > *seriously* busy site for that to make a difference. I won't disagree, but I'd say being in the habit of writing semi-optimal code in the fist place, will save you needing to learn new habits later when you do work on a *seriously* busy site :) I didn't argue for '' versus "", but sprintf() is a cycle pig in comparison to either. not only that, but since it's not a keyword, it incurs stack overhead. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php