Posted by Robert Cummings on 09/29/24 11:33

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:31, Richard Heyes wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:02, Richard Heyes wrote:
> >
> >>Readability is in the eye of the beholder.
> >
> >
> > But efficiency isn't ;)
>
> Try measuring the difference between the various methods over a
> realistic number of iterations, eg. 100. There's little point in going
> through ones code trying to "optimise" these things. Sure you might gain
> a millisecond here or there, but so what? You'd have to have a
> *seriously* busy site for that to make a difference.

I won't disagree, but I'd say being in the habit of writing semi-optimal
code in the fist place, will save you needing to learn new habits later
when you do work on a *seriously* busy site :) I didn't argue for ''
versus "", but sprintf() is a cycle pig in comparison to either. not
only that, but since it's not a keyword, it incurs stack overhead.

Cheers,
Rob.
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