Re: Single quotes VS. Double quotes

I am using 4.2.2-dev. Must be a stable build from snaps.php.net. I will read the archives. Brian Moon dealnews.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Schlossnagle" <george@omniti.com> To: "Andrey Hristov" <andrey@webgate.bg> Cc: "Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Single quotes VS. Double quotes | What version of php did you try this with Brian? There were some lexer | changes implemented (that I believe are only in HEAD for ZE1 and ZE2 | and not in 4.3) that should equalize this difference. There was a | thread about this on php-dev not long ago that explains why this occurs | - search the archives for ZEND_ADD_STRING. | | George | | On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:35 AM, Andrey Hristov wrote: | | > 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 | > | | |