Re: Single quotes VS. Double quotes

See this : http://phpxpath.sourceforge.net/benchmark/phpBench.php And show it to the guy. Andrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com> To: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:29 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Single quotes VS. Double quotes > This is of really low importance, but I found it interesting. A new guy on > the Phorum dev team decided to convert all double quotes to single quotes > for "speed" in CVS. The common assumption is that single quotes are faster > than double quotes. However, I am of the mind set of using double always as > it creates less headaches later to add a variable to the string. In an > attempt to show him the marginal savings of this, I did some benchmarks. > The results were confusing. > > $var="This is test number $x"; was really slow. > > but, > > $var="This is test number ".$x; > > and > > $var='This is test number '.$x; > > we basically identical. > > Andi, Zeev, if you want waste some energy on exanding on why this is and if > anything in ZE2 will change it I would find it a good read. > > Brian Moon > dealnews.com > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >