Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:7361 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31781 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Jan 2004 17:05:47 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31751 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 17:05:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO edwardbear.org) (216.179.74.133) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2004 17:05:47 -0000 Received: by edwardbear.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 641884EB71; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:04:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:04:27 -0500 To: Christian Schneider Cc: Andrei Zmievski , Ken Tossell , Michael Hawley , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20040127170427.GB756@bumblebury.com> References: <5EA4B904-5071-11D8-8C60-000A956E1B66@media.mit.edu> <40163967.1090602@cschneid.com> <20040127163657.GD32706@gravitonic.com> <40169516.4010406@cschneid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40169516.4010406@cschneid.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dollars and sense. From: sterling@php.net (Sterling Hughes) > Andrei Zmievski wrote: > >On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Christian Schneider wrote: > >>Why do you say this? I prefer "foo $bar blah". > > > >Because it's faster. > > Ok, that's interesting but irrelevant for most of my code. Readability > is a higher priority in most cases. > > Thanks for pointing this out, If you use a compiler cache like apc, this performance hit will be totally removed as the optimizer compiles both representations into the same format. -sterling -- "Reductionists like to take things apart. The rest of us are just trying to get it together." - Larry Wall, Programming Perl, 3rd Edition