note 82771 added to control-structures.else

At Caliban Darklock I don't know if it is just improvements in the parser, but there is a negligible difference in the performance of "elseif" vs "else if" as of version 5. One thousandth of a second in your example and 8 thousandths if the eval statement is repeated 5 times. If the constructs are in regular code, then there appears to be no difference. This leads me to believe that the difference in the eval code is from there being an extra parser token. Also the main performance burden of recursive functions is the stack operations of changing the context. In this case I believe that it would parse to very similar (if not identical) jmp controls. In summary, use your preference. Readability and maintainability rank far higher on the priority scale. One Additional note, there appears to be a limit of the number of "else if" statements (perhaps nested statements in general) that php will handle before starting to get screwy. This limit is about 1100. "elseif" is not affected by this. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 71.103.101.15 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.else.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82771 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82771 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82771 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php