Re: IF statement question...

Curt Zirzow wrote:

* Thus wrote Oliver Hankeln (oha@walter-interactive.de):

100000 Searches in a rather small string took 0.38s with strpos() and 0.55s with preg_match()

Make sure your benchmarks aren't bias: - assignment takes time - concating string takes time

You are right. I updated the script to: [...] $regexp="/".$needle."/"; $t1=getmicrotime(); for($i=0;$i<100000;$i++)

    strpos($haystack,$needle);

$t2=getmicrotime(); for($i=0;$i<100000;$i++)

    preg_match($regexp,$haystack);

$t3=getmicrotime(); [...] Now the time is 0.33s vs. 0.46s. preg_match needs 139.4% of the strpos time Oliver