Steve Bertrand wrote:
Given the following lines:
$MESSAGE .= "<P>Application Fee: <B>" . $price . " Dollars U.S.</B>";
$MESSAGE .= "<P>Application Fee: <B>$price Dollars U.S.</B>";
In that case it seems a bit pointless to do the first way as there are now 3 things instead of 1 to deal with. the Benchmark module will help a lot :)
Is there a performance issue (or any other issue) for using either of the above lines? Does it make any difference which is used?
Suppose it changed to the following:
$MESSAGE .= "<P>Application Fee: <B>" . $query-param('price') . " Dollars U.S.</B>";
or
$MESSAGE .= "<P>Application Fee: <B>$query-param('price') Dollars U.S.</B>";
You mean: $query->param('price') right? :)
if you're doing something like that or a function thats a good way to do it but don't if you don't need to.
benchmark will tell you how they compare.
I have used the first two lines without any noticeable difference, but I didn't use any sort of debugging/timer tools either. I am debating with myself about which line from the second set I should use. In all instances the correct value of "price" was inserted into the variable $MESSAGE
Here's a benchmark I did:
Benchmark: timing 2000000 iterations of all one, with dots...
all one: 0.839485 wallclock secs ( 0.78 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.78 CPU) @ 2564102.56/s (n=2000000)
with dots: 0.975471 wallclock secs ( 1.01 usr + -0.01 sys = 1.00 CPU) @ 2000000.00/s (n=2000000)
Rate with dots all one
with dots 2000000/s -- -22%
all one 2564103/s 28% --
HTH :)
Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net
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