Now THAT's the kind of answer I was looking for. Thanks very much for
checking that out.
Mind if I ask what you used for your benchmarking/timing software-wise?
blest,
jeremy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Butzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 16:55
> To: jeremy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Question concerning performance
>
>
> > Example ONE: (in just parse mode)
> > --------[cut]---------------
> > <?
> > print "<html-tag>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah</html-tag>";
> > print "<html-tag>" . $Var1 . "</html-tag><b-tag>" . $Var2 .
> "</b-tag>";
> > ?>
> > --------[/cut]--------------
>
> Ran a pretty rough benchmark: 10040 lines of code (5020
> repetitions of the
> above example) 10 times with an average execution time of
> 6.07904628515244
> seconds.
>
>
> > Example TWO: (in html && parse mode)
> > --------[cut]---------------
> > <html-tag>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah</html-tag>
> > <html-tag><?=$Var1;?></html-tag><b-tag><?=$Var2;?></b-tag>
> > --------[/cut]--------------
>
> Same benchmark, except these two lines were used instead of
> the two lines
> in the above case (obviously). Again, 10 executions; this
> time the average
> execution time was 6.40339350700379 seconds.
>
> There are 100 ways error could've been introduced into this
> test; even so,
> the results seem to lean towards not switching between html &
> php modes...
> although, you're talking about 1000 lines of code, and the
> test used 10
> times that, and the resulting difference was a little more
> than 3 tenths of
> a second... if you compared it with 1/10th of the code (your 1000 line
> file), you'd probably have a difference in the hundredths-of-a-second
> range.
>
> It's up to you, but I agree with what Christian said - I'd
> probably shoot
> for being able to maintain the code; with such a little speed
> difference
> you might as well set up more servers than optimize for 1/5th
> of a second
> in execution time.
>
> --Toby
>
>
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