Posted by Hermann.Richter on 09/13/06 03:16

I asked this question on php.general, but I didn't get any reply. So
I'm asking here now.

As you already know, when an identifier is not found to be a defined
constant, php interprets it as a string.

For example:
<?
$var=hello ;
?>

the "constant" hello is not defined, so $var takes the value "hello".

My question is the following:

I have a large script with several thousands of strings.
In order to reduce the files size, I removed all the quotes from the
strings.

What is the performance impact of this in terms of cpu-time and system
resources required??

I mean, the script will take longer to execute??
will it take more cpu??

Thanks in advance.

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