Posted by Marcus Bointon on 10/21/84 11:32

On 18 Nov 2005, at 20:13, Dylan wrote:

> $var = "first part of string ".(($a==$b)?$c:$d)." rest of string";
>
> and I feel it would be more elegant to be able to do something like:
>
> $var ="first part of string {(($a==$b)?$c:$d)} rest of string";

Strange as it may seem, you'll probably find that this is the fastest
method:

'first part of string '.(($a==$b)?$c:$d).' rest of string'

I benchmarked this a while ago and was surprised to find that
multiple concats with single quotes are significantly faster than
interpolation.

Marcus
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