Re: Single quotes VS. Double quotes

Man, I wish that answered my question, but it does not address string concatenation vs. variables in double quoted strings anywhere on there. Thanks for trying. Brian Moon dealnews.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrey Hristov" <andrey@webgate.bg> To: "Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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 | > | | |