Re: Single quotes VS. Double quotes

Oops, contrary to my earlier statement, the lexer patch for this problem seems to be in 4.3.0rc2 and 4.3.0rc3. George On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:43 AM, Brian Moon wrote:

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 | > | | | -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php