PHP speed question

[ADAM Web Design]

Okay, I'm something of a newcomer to PHP...I've messed around with it a bit, but nothing serious, as I prefer ASP (to each their own though).

Anyway, I haven't found any conclusive documentation on this, but I'm wondering if, like ASP, <? ?> counts as a time stop and if blank lines would still be processed in code due to JIT compilation of such.

Thanks.

[vark]

Hi Adam,
I don't use ASP but, regarding the time stop question I've never heard of that with PHP. As you probably know all PHP processing happens between <?php ?> or <? ?>. I've never heard/read anything about <? ?> counting as a time stop and I've been using PHP close to 3 years. When ever I've wanted to see the execute time either for the script or for code blocks within the script I do something similar to:


function getmicrotime()
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ",microtime());
return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}

$time = getmicrotime();

#
# benchmark code here
#

echo "

Time elapsed: ",getmicrotime() - $time, " seconds";