Re: functions versus includes

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:27 +1100, Chris wrote: > Frank Lopes wrote: > > I just started using PHP and got to think... > > > > Without getting into the discussion of "best practices", strictly from > > a performance perspective, > > what is faster: a function or an include? > > > > For example I have a block of text that needs to appear mutliple times > > throughout the site. > > > > Will I be better off creating a function with its contents and then > > later just calling the function or, > > will it be faster (from an execution perspective) for me to create an > > .inc file that gets included later on? > > Micro-optimization is pretty useless. I seriously doubt you would notice > any difference in performance. > > This comes under the other discussions like about which is faster - a > foreach/while/for loop. > > You'll find other bottlenecks (eg changing a regex to do an str_replace) > which will make a bigger difference. Actually, if you're going to use a comparison between using regex and string replacement as an example of lower hanging optimization fruit, I think you'll find the difference between invoking a function and including a file to be on par. The function is by far the better solution when considering speed. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................