RE: [PHP] arrays and php

Chris Shiflett <mailto:shiflett@php.net> on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:39 AM said: > The comma isn't concatenation; echo can take multiple arguments. Oh ok, I get it. > I've heard statements about passing multiple arguments to echo being > faster than using concatenation, but every benchmark I've tried > myself shows them to be nearly identical. Feel free to try it > yourself and post your results. :-) I'd be curious to see if others > reach the same conclusion. I tried this, and I think the comma was just slightly faster than the period. But then again I didn't always get consistent results because I was trying this out on a machine that is not very fast so the speed at which is processes something varies quite a bit. My conclusion was that it's not fast enough to bother changing all my code, or start writing in a new way. Although during some testing I did find that writing loops in the following way is faster than normal. $counter = -1; while(++$counter < $amount) { // do stuff } It made a big enough difference on my slow machine to merit me writing as many loops in this way as I can. (I think.) Chris.