Re: More on windows performance

> Perhaps one of you can decipher these numbers... It seems to me that > the user+sys time only adds up to over 0.06 seconds. Which I believe > would be the time that something like this SHOULD actually take. > However, the actual elapsed time is odd because: a) its so slow, b) the > print statements are so much faster than raw characters. I suspect the speed is due to the server not having to parse through all those characters. If you have any type of parsing happening on your raw HTML files -- for SSI, etc. -- the server has to parse through every single character looking for control codes. With the single print statement in a loop, it is able to simply execute the command. I have no figures to back up this supposition, but it has a "common sense" logic to it. See how long it takes (you, not a computer) to find the string "<?" in a file of 100,000 random characters, then see how long it takes to find the same string in the file: <? while ($i < 100000): echo("*"); $i++; endwhile ?> It parses much faster, then just spits out the characters. Has anyone done a test of raw HTML output speed with all parsing, including SSI, disabled?