Richard Heyes wrote: > Hi, > > I've been recently wondering (musing if you will) about timings, and > roughly how long, in a very real sense, it takes on a modern computer > for a single line of PHP, or Javascript (or interpreted code in > general) to execute. Nanoseconds? Quicker?
Not taking pipelining into account, a 3GHz processor will execute one instruction in 333 picoseconds, so three instructions in a nanosecond. How many instructions to a line of code? 10,000 ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.6°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
