Re: Single quotes VS. Double quotes

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Brian Moon wrote: > Man, I wish that answered my question, but it does not address string > concatenation vs. variables in double quoted strings anywhere on there. This was recently fixed in PHP. Single quotes and double quotes wont have that much of a speed difference from (I believe) PHP 4.3.0. Derick > ----- 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 > | > > | > | > | > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------