Re: Which way is better?

I will have to agree with you on this one. I have been working with php for around the same amount of time. At first I used print and echo to output code. But then I found that for myself, writing code like your example became quick and simple I have done many speed tests of which none have proven that one way to output HTML is significantly faster then the other. case study... <!-- start print(" "); seconds: 1052497037 running total: --> <!-- stop print(" "); seconds: 1052497038 running total: 335672974586 --> <!-- start print(" "); seconds: 1052497038 running total: --> <!-- stop print(" "); seconds: 1052497038 running total: 340480923653 --> <!-- start echo " "; seconds: 1052497038 running total: --> <!-- stop echo " "; seconds: 1052497038 running total: 9365003109 --> <!-- start ?> <? seconds: 1052497038 running total: --> <!-- stop ?> <? seconds: 1052497038 running total: 294946908951 --> <!-- start ?><?=" "?><? seconds: 1052497038 running total: --> <!-- stop ?><?=" "?><? seconds: 1052497039 running total: 312368988991 --> I setup a for loop that loops 100,000 times These are the results that I get from this. the speed of the machine doesn't matter Jim Lucas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: <peter@schoenster.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Which way is better? > on 09/05/03 3:07 PM, Peter Schoenster (peter@schoenster.com) wrote: > > > If you've been doing web app work for awhile you'll realize the one true > > rule is everything will change and will your code be easy to change or > > not? Will even you be able to read it later? Your boss will not want to > > do a re-write. I always write for ease of evolution, if writing for > > speed write closer to the machine other than the obvious, imho. > > I am my own boss, have being doing this for 3-4 years, and have what has > proven to be a robust, adaptable code base. It hasn't required any major > overhauls, and has stood up well faced with some very unexpected client > requests, changes and modules. > > *I* personally find my coding style is easy to maintain, easy to read, etc > etc, having spent hundreds of hours working with it. You may not, but that > shouldn't imply that yours is the best solution to a problem. > > Isn't that why the PHP developers gave us MANY different ways to print > output? So that each individual can work in a way that best suits them. > > Justin > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >