Re: PHP programming strategy

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Larry Garfield<larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:01:11 pm Eddie Drapkin wrote: >> > I actually benchmarked that once.  I had a reasonably large PHP file that >> > was, in fact, over 50% docblocks.  That's not even counting inline >> > comments.  While trying to find things to optimize, removing about 800 >> > lines worth of comments (all of the docblocks) did, in fact, produce a >> > noticeable performance difference.  It was only barely noticeable, but it >> > just barely registered as more than random sampling jitter.  I actually >> > concluded that if cutting the file *in half* was only just barely >> > noticeable, then it really wasn't worth the effort. >> >> Yeah but what happens if you run the script through the tokenizer and >> strip ALL comments, unnecessary whitespace, newline characters, etc. >> out? > > Honestly?  I think you'll save more CPU time by eliminating one SQL query. > Most files are not 60% comments.  In a file that is only about 20% comments, I > doubt you could even measure the difference.  There are far far far more useful > ways to optimize your code. > > (Note that this is different for CSS or Javascript, where compressors like that > are commonplace because you have to transfer the entire file over the network > repeatedly, which is a few orders of magnitude slower than system memory. > Compressors and aggregators there make sense.  PHP code never leaves the > server, so those benefits don't exist.) > > -- > Larry Garfield > larry@garfieldtech.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Seems the sarcasm / attempted comedy was lost in translation! --Eddie