Hello Trevor,

Monday, October 25, 2004, 4:47:53 PM, you wrote:

GT> processed by PHP?  I mean, if the PHP parser goes through and never sees
GT> a <? Or <?php, does it do any more than just output the file? True,
GT> that's something, but is it anything really significant.

True, it doesn't do anything other than output the HTML. But it's that
"load - scan - determine - output" that takes up CPU time and memory.

Sure, on most sites it doesn't matter one bit. But on popular sites..
well, you can do the math I'm sure.

I guess at the end of the day it comes down to "don't do un-necessary
things". That goes for your code as well as your server set-up, but
it's true to say that if you don't actually need to parse HTML as PHP,
then don't.

Best regards,

Richard Davey
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