Re: vars

Kurth, In any parsed tranlated language there is a penality cost for using long token names. Obivously $mr is going to take longer to parse than $Monies_Received. But the tradeoff is up to you. There is not a huge penality, as the variables and tokens are probably held in some kind ok hashed/indexed tree for fast access, so as long as you pick a sensible variable character length it will not affect you server in any noticable way. In generally for I use: 1 reused character for tempory variables ($t,$i), 3-6 characters for mainly used variables ($sum,$total) <6 for varibles I want to keep seperate ($MYCOOKY_CUSTNO) Hope this gives you something to think about, David. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kurth Bemis <kurth@usaexpress.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: [PHP] vars > from a programming standpoint is it better to use shorter var names or > longer? longer is easier to me because i can be more descriptive....i have > read that shorter is easier on the server tho....thoughts? > > ~kurth > Kurth Bemis - Senior Linux Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net > > kurth@usaexpress.net > http://www.usaexpress.net/kurth > ICQ - 6624050 > Call Sign - N1TYW > PGP key available - http://www.usaexpress.net/kurth/pgp > > Fight Weak Encryption! Donate your wasted CPU cycles to Distributed.net > (http://www.distributed.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 >