Posted by Matthew Fonda on 03/05/05 23:28

Hello,

Comments should not affect speed or performance at. Commenting is a good
thing, and you should continue to do it. :)

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:15, Chris Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably a silly question, but when I am writing php scripts
> (specifically large classes), I tend to write just as many comments as
> lines of code (for my own reference).
>
> Does this affect _execution performance_ of the scripts at all i.e. are
> they precompiled/interpreted and cached without comments or interpreted
> on every execution?
>
> I am using PHP 5.0.3 on Apache on Windows.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Chris Smith
> Ninja Labs
> http://www.ninjalabs.co.uk/
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Regards,
Matthew Fonda
http://mfonda.info

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