Re: long echo statement performance question

"Stuart" <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote in message news:a5f019de0902060932k1ccf2948ua42f3cfa336942c9@mail.gmail.com... > 2009/2/6 Frank Stanovcak <blindspotpro@comcast.net>: >> >> "Richard Heyes" <richard@php.net> wrote in message >> >> news:af8726440902060918v6d2f1ee1ia3f8391898747b2@mail.gmail.com... >>>> Wouldn't have thought so. But for readability, you may find this a >>>> little easier instead: >>> >>> Slight correction: >>> >>> ?> >>> <?=$var1?> blah <?=var2?> >>> <?php >>> >>> -- >>> Richard Heyes >>> >>> HTML5 Canvas graphing for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari: >>> http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 31st) >> >> Actually that's what I'm in the middle of undoing. The first revision >> was >> jumping in and out of PHP mode upwards of 60 times per page on the >> shorter >> pages. I've read a couple places that that can put a huge performace hit >> on >> things, so I was just trying to simplify the code a bit. Plus I don't >> have >> the fast tags, <?=, enabled *blush* > > They're called short tags, not fast tags. There is nothing faster > about them beyond the typing effort required. > > This question, or rather variations of it, appear on this list at > pretty regular intervals. A little while ago I wrote a script to test > the speed of various output methods. > > http://stut.net/projects/phpspeed/?iterations=10000 > > As you can see, the difference is so minimal that unless you're doing > it hundreds of thousands of times per script it makes little > difference how you do it. > > In short it's usually not worth optimising at this level since greater > gains are certainly to be had by looking at your interaction with > databases or other external resources. > > -Stuart > > -- > http://stut.net/ Thanks Stuart! So for clarity's sake jumping into and out of PHP parsing mode to echo a var isn't going to do as great a performance hit as these naysayers would have me believe. Good. I like the color coding of my html in my editor that is lost when I have to quote it to get it to echo/print properly! Frank