With all due respect, Eric, you're not testing what we're discussing. A "real" CLI test would be more like: time cat foo.html time php -q foo.html I.E., how long does PHP take to read/write foo.html without breaking into PHP "mode" for static HTML. Of course, it's still a lousy benchmark with CLI instead of Apache wrapper, but you get my point, I trust. Q: How much slower is it to force all static .html files through PHP wrapper of Apache? A: About 5 to 10 % (as of a couple years ago...) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php