Re: Re: optimilize web page loading

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:14 +0100, Zoltán Németh wrote: > 2008. 03. 27, csütörtök keltezéssel 09.29-kor Philip Thompson ezt írta: > > On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote: > > > Depends on the server and it's load. I've strung together some > > > rather large html strings and they aways take far less time than the > > > transient time on the internet. I used to use OB extensively until > > > one day I took the time to measure the difference. I don't recall > > > the numbers; but, I do recall it was not worth the slight extra > > > trouble to use OB. > > > > > > Now, I simple assemble by html strings with $report .= "foo"; And > > > then echo $report at the end. It also makes the code very easy to > > > read and follow. > > > > You might as well take it a step further. Change the above to: > > > > $report .= 'foo'; > > > > This way for literal strings, the PHP parser doesn't have to evaluate > > this string to determine if anything needs to be translated (e.g., > > $report .= "I like to $foo"). A minimal speedup, but nonetheless... > > > that above statement is simply not true. parsing "foo" and 'foo' is all > the same > > a good read about it: > > http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/28-How-long-is-a-piece-of-string.html Nope, parsing is not the same, the resultant bytecode is the same, but parsing is not. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP