On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 15:28 -0400, chris h wrote: > Benchmark and find out! :) > > What are you using this for? Unless you are doing something crazy it > probably doesn't matter, and you should pick whichever you feel looks nicer > / is easier to code in / etc. > > Chris H. > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:23 PM, saeed ahmed <saeed.sas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > $a = 'hey'; > > $b = 'done'; > > > > $c = $a.$b; > > $c = "$a$b"; > > > > which one is faster for echo $c. > > As far as I'm aware, the first of the two will be faster, but only just. As Saeed mentioned, the difference will be negligible, and unless you plan to run a line like that in a loop or something hundreds of thousands of times, you probably won't notice any difference. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk