Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 10/04/64 11:05

Jochem Maas wrote:
> hi guys,

> I always use curly braces around vars placed in double quoted strings, I
> do this for 2 reasons:
>
> 1. I believe It helps the engine because the var delimitation is
> explicit, and this means the interpolation is (should be?) faster.
> 2. it looks nice (easier to read!)
>
> I have tried to test this with a simple script that does a million
> interations - but I cannot get it to return consistent results - one
> time with curlies is faster, another its slower.

The difference happens at parse time, so if you want to measure any
difference execute php script in a loop, not loop inside php script.

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