Re: Objects and Performance

On 6/9/05, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@garden.org> wrote: > Actually, that is the point. If I decide the write a script, and it is my idea, then the point of the script is my own. It's a simple benchmark. I doubt a client would ever come to me and say "Can you write me a script to add two random numbers a thousand time?" No, it's not gonna happen. I decided what the benckmark would do, and so I wrote it. I wrote two versions, a full-on OO version, and a pure procedural one. _That_ is the point of the benchmark. What do you not grasp about that? > What Chris Chris who? > was getting at is that usually you have a bit more going on > in a function or method -- several operations, not just a wrapper for a > single operation -- that the function/method call serves to abstract. If you think it matters a great deal rewrite the benchmark and remove it. The OO version will still be slower. Putting a single function call in a wrapper function is better known as 'abstraction'. If later I decide to use srand() instead of mt_srand() I only have to change it in one place. > if you're working > for a client under a deadline, you don't always have that luxury. Exactly why I always write procedural style. It's much faster to code, to run, and to debug. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/