PHP's OO is bad?

Zeev wrote: > Using OO usually results in a significant slowdown. Significant doesn't > necessarily mean 50% performance drop; 5% to 20% is not uncommon, and as > you said, YMMV. > This is certainly in line with my own real-world tests. I suspect that in most applications, much the largest overheads are parsing the scripts (unless you are using Zend cache or APC) and database calls. On my application, the few milliseconds of processing time lost by going with OOP are insignificant compared with these - processing time is simply not the bottleneck. On the other hand, well designed OOP can offer significant gains in maintainability and reusability with complex applications... Geoff Caplan Insight Professional