Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-19 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 04:38 19.03.2003, -{ Rene Brehmer }- said: [snip] I'm totally lost here ... what does that mean??? Reminds me of assembler, except that assembler is more like: 0001 jnp e002 e003 0005 0002 jmp e002 e003 0008 And so on (not sure if that's fully correct

[PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Liam Gibbs
Is it just as quick to do: if($r == 0) { } else if($r != 0) { } than to do: if($r == 0) { } else { } The reason I like the former method is because, in a large IF-ELSE block, it's clear what belongs to what IF and what's going on. But does this make it lag? And, if so, is it really all that

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Kevin Stone
becuase it's exactly the same thing. - Kevin - Original Message - From: Liam Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements Is it just as quick to do: if($r == 0) { } else if($r != 0) { } than

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Liam Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just as quick to do: if($r == 0) { } else if($r != 0) { } than to do: if($r == 0) { } else { } No. It is (almost) the difference between two conditionals versus one. Both are fast, however, and you will find it hard to measure the

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Robert Cummings
Kevin Stone wrote: Logically the if-else construct is faster becuase PHP doesn't have to parse and execute the second conditional. An if-elseif construct is ussually followed by an else block to describe a default action if no other conditions are true. Otherwise you may as well use

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 21:02 18.03.2003, Liam Gibbs said: [snip] Is it just as quick to do: if($r == 0) { } else if($r != 0) { } than to do: if($r == 0) { } else { } The reason I like the former method is because, in a large IF-ELSE block, it's clear what belongs to what

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread -{ Rene Brehmer }-
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:39:11 +0100, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote about Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements what the universal translator turned into this: Noticeable? Probably not, except you're timing loops of a million or more cycles... but it's clear that the second method needs more

Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread Jason Sheets
, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote about Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements what the universal translator turned into this: Noticeable? Probably not, except you're timing loops of a million or more cycles... but it's clear that the second method needs more time (in terms of cpu cycles

RE: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements

2003-03-18 Thread daniel
web interface where you can disable the cache or optimizer and also view the cached scripts. Jason On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 20:38, -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:39:11 +0100, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote about Re: [PHP] Which is quicker, if-else statements what the universal