Re: Performance: register_globals on or off?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:19:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Performance: register_globals on or off? | ||
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> Are there any real performance gained by turning register_globals off?
After
> all, it must take the php engine some clock cycles to generate all the
> global variables. Have anyone tested it?
It can't be that many clock cycles...
I think people do it more to stop hackers from trying to use a mix of GET
and POST to confuse their code than for clock cycles.
Your best bet is to test it on your own server anyway -- Nothing else will
be very accurate.
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