Stut wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:15 +0000, Stut wrote: >> > Gregory Beaver wrote: >> >> This is a good example of how the flexibility of PHP can bite >> >> you, but is also a good example of how bad coding adds both >> >> complexity and inefficiency to the resulting software. If f() is >> >> called often, there might be a noticeable speedup if it were >> >> replaced. I once had a complex database ORM-HTML mapping app >> >> that was about 10% faster when I replaced all the "" strings with >> >> '' strings. This was on a slow machine with an early PHP, but >> >> little things like this can be very important. >> > http://dev.stut.net/phpspeed/ nice little overview. >> >> You forgot to benchmark echo, everyone (me anyways) knows echo is >> faster than print. Why you ask? Because print returns a value, echo >> does not :) > > You *know* that for a fact do you? > > I've added a plain echo to complement the plain print, and in the 5 or 6 > runs I've done print is always faster, but not by much. out of interest, are you logging the result of each request? your probably getting quite a lot of hits to your phpspeed page right now - storing the results of everyone's requests is a nice way to grab extra/free data whilst you pick your nose ;-) > > -Stut > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
