Re: I can't believe it...

Hi Jason, > Another thing that I would like to point out is that with PEAR, speed is an > important thing. Just by using PEAR::DB, you end up include()-ing ~70 kb of > files. Using more classes means more include()-ing. That can become hefty, > if your site or application that uses PEAR classes has a lot of traffic. I > myself am a proponent of tabs, for this reason -- it is less code to parse. > If you use 8 spaces instead of one tab, it is seven more characters to > include(), and also seven more characters for the PHP parser to parse. > Hence, slower code. Besides the fact that editing code written with tabs is > also easier and a faster development process. Although I wouldn't say the speed is all that signficant, not with the speeds of the computers we are using today I do agree with both your points, it can be proven consistently that tabs increase the parse speed (very fractionally) and the speed of the development process (much more significantly). As I said in my other email though I agree with Karsten that this is no longer the place for this discussion, I have made my points and they can be accepted or not. :) All the best... Conor