Re: Pointers For Newbies, Reminders For Oldies

Daniel Egeberg wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 18:13, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08, Daniel Egeberg <degeberg@php.net> wrote: >>> There is virtually no difference nowadays. It's a long time since >>> anything like that has mattered. >> Actually, that's not true enough to be dismissive. It depends on >> several factors. > > Well, I would still say it's far too insignificant to bother with. > Strangely I actually feel quite passionate about optimisation at the procedural code level, making sure each line of code is correct and optimised adds up to one big well optimised script / application. kinda like a builder saying "cement is insignificant it's the bricks that matter", or a writer suggesting that punctuation doesn't matter any more. If you took the above logic and used it in something like ActionScript where you're code could be run at 50-60 fps (often meaning methods are called 600-60k times a second) - little statements like that would crash a browser and put you out of a job. regards :)