Re: Re: parsing

Lee, yes you're right. Using single quotes to denote a litteral string does speed things up a bit. My bench sped up by about .08 seconds over 10,000 echos. That's about 5 pages worth of text. Is .08 seconds worth worrying about? I'm gonna go out a limb here and say.. no. :) -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Doolan" <lee@affero.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: parsing > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave At Sinewaves Net <eightrack@earthlink.net> > >>>>> writes: > > Dave> Okay, I want to know if anybody has a clue which is more > Dave> efficient, processorwise/parsingwise: > > Dave> this: ------ echo > Dave> "<table><tr><td><b>".$somevar."</b><br>".$somevardesc."</td></tr></table>"; > > Dave> or this: ------ echo > Dave> "<table><tr><td><b>{$somevar}</b><br>{$somevardesc}</td></tr></table>"; > > > Dave> I almost always use the first method (just seems more > Dave> readable to me), but with all of the discussion popping up > Dave> about curly brackets, i was wondering if it really makes a > Dave> difference? Any vets out there care to put in their $0.02? > > I bet that this would beat the pants off of both: > > echo '<table><tr><td><b>'. $somevar . > '</b><br>' . $somevardesc . '</td></tr></table>'; > > > -- > When the birdcage is open, | donate to causes I care about: > the selfish bird flies away, | > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=leed_25 > but the virtuous one stays. | > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >