Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/09/06 03:42

monomaniac21 wrote:
> hi all
>
> can anyone tell me what the performance implications are of using
> multiple includes on a page. do includes increase performance in
> anyway? do they make a signifcantly negative impact? or is it negligible
>

Well, obviously there is some impact - PHP has to call the OS to load a
new file, after all. But the overhead for parsing the file will be the
same once it's loaded.

If you're running that close to the limit that a few includes worry you,
you need a faster server (or multiple servers).

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