Re: The INI framework in PHP 4.0

> How did you benchmark? I find it hard to believe that 12 hash lookups, > malloc's and memcpy's on every request, don't make a significant > difference. Was that time you checked it after the session module was in > place and with that slow startup? Sure. The benchmark was created to show the potential benefit of reducing startup costs. Or expressed in a script, <? echo "hello world"; ?> While there are lies, damn lies and benchmarks, I was not tricky enough to produce a benchmark which showed more than 3% or so difference. > Remember, this is PURE overhead that's not useful for anything and can be > comlpletely avoided. The marginal gain is huge especially with people who > turn on the PHP engine for all pages. A huge marginal gain? Let numbers speak. - Sascha