On 2/7/07, Adrian Noland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The loop is optimizing the results. Here is what I got when I replaced
them with 115K direct strings.
Without profiling
Concatenation took 4.47135686874. Multiple echoes took 5.18587899208.
Concatenation took 4.42481684685. Multiple echoes took 5.15758609772.
Concatenation took 4.42998504639. Multiple echoes took 5.14059782028.
with profiling enabled:
Concatenation took 7.02670788765. Multiple echoes took 7.44358682632
http://indigente.net/profile_microtime.profile.txt (7MB file)
http://indigente.net/profile_microtime.php.txt (10MB)
Obviously, I don't have any 10MB PHP files and this isn't a real world
example, but it is somewhat enlightening. I'm interested in
everybody's thoughts on this.
Responding to my own post...
I realized that rand() may be exaggerating again, so I ran Rob's test
again with rand() added to the output and got these for comparison.
Concatenation took 1.42593598366. Multiple echoes took 1.53872704506
Concatenation took 1.75097298622. Multiple echoes took 1.98070502281
Concatenation took 1.66252112389. Multiple echoes took 1.82230710983
I guess the answer is going to be "It depends" on what you are doing.
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