Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/29/22 11:05

Marek Kilimajer wrote:
> 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.
>

DOH! nice one Marek, will make an attempt to 'bash' a script together
asap (I'm crap at shell scripting! but the challenge is a good one).
thanks for the heads up.

thinking about what you said, dumping some test code inside an exec()
call would have the same effect, no?

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