Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Any idea why we have two html_puts()'s?

I messed up on the test, I left output buffering enabled for tests 2 and 3. So you can see that using output buffering on top of the global output buffering (whether specialized or not) slows you down by about 30%. However, to be fair, the numbers w/o global output buffering enabled:

Specialied OB:                                  26 req/s
PHP OB (C level, for each separate string):     23 req/s

No buffering:                                   12 req/s
Specialized OB:                                 36.3 req/s
PHP OB (C level, for each separate string):     35.9 req/s
PHP OB (userland, for the entire phpinfo()):    50 req/s

By far, the quickest solution is to use output buffering for the entire page.