On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Nico Edtinger <n...@edtinger.at> wrote: > A.J. Brown wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:22 AM, till <klimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Parsing an .ini is *very* expensive. > > Actually parsing an INI file should be faster than parsing PHP. The > zend_ini_scanner.l is 8kB, while zend_language_scanner.l is 52kB, which > alone shows, that it's more complex. The real difference is that opcode > caches ignore INI files, so you need to do the caching yourself.
Did you actually try it? Parsing XML through SimpleXML is like 20x faster than parsing an ini format -- even though the library used will probably excel your 8kB limit. Till
