Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread David Harkness
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > The larger a script or class is, the more memory this uses per instance. > This is not quite true. When the script is loaded, it requires a fixed amount of memory to parse it. The larger it is, the more memory it requires. Next, the script

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Ewert
> No, I don't think there will be problems. I also think the only way > you'll ever find out whether it *will* be a problem in your system is > by testing. I've started some benchmarks with apachebench but the problem is I don't have any benchmarks to compare with. And so I started looking for som

RE: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > So you think that a length of 850 lines won't lead to a performance > problem? No, I don't think there will be problems. I also think the only way you'll ever find out whether it *will* be a problem in your system is by testing. [/snip] ^this to the max [snip] > The site is not online y

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Lind
On 22 July 2010 15:49, Sebastian Ewert wrote: > Peter Lind wrote: >> >> It's unlikely to cause you performance problems unless you've got a >> huge amount of traffic - and then you could probably fix your problems >> easier than refactoring classes. >> >> Personal anecdote: I've worked on classes

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Ewert
Peter Lind wrote: > > It's unlikely to cause you performance problems unless you've got a > huge amount of traffic - and then you could probably fix your problems > easier than refactoring classes. > > Personal anecdote: I've worked on classes longer than 3K lines with no > marked performance pro

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Lind
On 22 July 2010 15:27, Sebastian Ewert wrote: > Jay Blanchard wrote: >> [snip] >> Thats exacty the point. In my user class I have functions whitch return >> object-lists of diffrent users or strings with html-form elements for >> managing this user account. >> >> But if I put all these in a helper

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Ewert
Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Thats exacty the point. In my user class I have functions whitch return > object-lists of diffrent users or strings with html-form elements for > managing this user account. > > But if I put all these in a helper class I would anyway need to > implement the user obj

RE: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Thats exacty the point. In my user class I have functions whitch return object-lists of diffrent users or strings with html-form elements for managing this user account. But if I put all these in a helper class I would anyway need to implement the user object there, because of the other get

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Ewert
Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:49 +0200, Sebastian Ewert wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm developing an joomla component and my helper an user classes are >> crowing bigger and bigger. The helper class is for static use only. >> >> Does class size decrease performance of my php scripts

Re: [PHP] Does class length slow down performance

2010-07-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:49 +0200, Sebastian Ewert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing an joomla component and my helper an user classes are > crowing bigger and bigger. The helper class is for static use only. > > Does class size decrease performance of my php scripts, even for static > usage? > Is