At 7:47 PM -0500 3/23/07, Richard Lynch wrote:
Folks: How often do you use a loop of any kind in PHP with enough iterations that this is even significant? Write the code that makes sense. Optimize the biggest bottleneck until performance is acceptable.
Absolutely -- the time we take discussing these types of concerns probably cost more cycles than the sum total of all the "optimized" savings in the lifetime of all the computers on earth.
The time you spend trying to make something faster in those terms clearly cost more time in development and maintenance. It's a trade-off that's not worth it.
Q: Do they teach this stuff in college now or are the teachers still only measuring performance in myopic terms of saving memory and time? Not a criticism, just a question.
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