Re: Question concerning performance

PHP's time functions and this little library I put together a while back - http://imawebdesigner.com/utils/runtime_clock --Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy" <jeremy@33ad.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:49 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Question concerning performance > Now THAT's the kind of answer I was looking for. Thanks very much for > checking that out. > > Mind if I ask what you used for your benchmarking/timing software-wise? > > blest, > jeremy > > > -- > Jeremy Kelley <jeremy@33ad.org> pgp keyid 0xAECBA355 > Phil 1:21 www.ganooz.com > Car pour moi, la vie c'est le Christ, et la mort est un gain. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Toby Butzon [mailto:php-lists@imawebdesigner.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 16:55 > > To: jeremy; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Question concerning performance > > > > > > > Example ONE: (in just parse mode) > > > --------[cut]--------------- > > > <? > > > print "<html-tag>blah blah blah blah blah blah > > > blah</html-tag>"; > > > print "<html-tag>" . $Var1 . > > > "</html-tag><b-tag>" . $Var2 . > > "</b-tag>"; > > > ?> > > > --------[/cut]-------------- > > > > Ran a pretty rough benchmark: 10040 lines of code (5020 > > repetitions of the > > above example) 10 times with an average execution time of > > 6.07904628515244 > > seconds. > > > > > > > Example TWO: (in html && parse mode) > > > --------[cut]--------------- > > > <html-tag>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah</html-tag> > > > > > > <html-tag><?=$Var1;?></html-tag><b-tag><?=$Var2;?></b-tag> > > > --------[/cut]-------------- > > > > Same benchmark, except these two lines were used instead of > > the two lines > > in the above case (obviously). Again, 10 executions; this > > time the average > > execution time was 6.40339350700379 seconds. > > > > There are 100 ways error could've been introduced into this > > test; even so, > > the results seem to lean towards not switching between html & > > php modes... > > although, you're talking about 1000 lines of code, and the > > test used 10 > > times that, and the resulting difference was a little more > > than 3 tenths of > > a second... if you compared it with 1/10th of the code (your 1000 line > > file), you'd probably have a difference in the hundredths-of-a-second > > range. > > > > It's up to you, but I agree with what Christian said - I'd > > probably shoot > > for being able to maintain the code; with such a little speed > > difference > > you might as well set up more servers than optimize for 1/5th > > of a second > > in execution time. > > > > --Toby > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >