Posted by Michael Vilain on 06/05/05 12:42

In article <jc65a1t4vq7nqvrv14iltacjmkq6924k09@4ax.com>,
Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:

> Marcus <JumpMan222@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >Quick question... I have a class that is over 1200 lines of code and 50
> >KB in size. This file does not display any html, it is just included
> >and after I call all the necessary functions, I save the data and
> >display it on my output page.
> >
> >Here is my confusion - to the best of my understanding, since php is
> >server side, this file should never be "transferred" to the client,
> >correct? In other words, whether my class is 100 lines or 10,000 lines,
> >it shouldn't have any affect on my bandwidth or transfer rate should it?
> >Please correct me if I am wrong, but I have been operating under the
> >assumption that the only thing that gets transferred to the client is
> >the php file after it has been parsed for all html formatting, and the
> >size of this final product is what affects the speed of transfer.
>
> True.
>
> However, PHP does have to recompile that entire file for every page, unless
> you are using a cache/optimizer. That takes time -- possibly a lot of
> time.

This is why I broke my code libraries into functional parts. That way,
each page can require what it needs and only what it needs.

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