Posted by David T. Ashley on 11/09/06 14:13

"M" <nospam@here.thankyou> wrote in message
news:NjG4h.49647$r61.43856@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> Which would be more performant? I understand that echo's are poor in
> performance with large blocks of text, but what is the overhead of the web
> server (Apache) making repeated calls to the php engine?

It is possible that even the authors of PHP/Zend don't know for sure.
Real-time analysis of software is complex. It might be easiest for you to
construct a test.

To eliminate the effects of network variability, you could use "curl" and
"time" directly on the remote machine with Apache and PHP.

Dave.

[Back to original message]