On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 12:00, Richard Davey wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > Friday, May 7, 2004, 4:51:45 PM, you wrote: > > RA> Nearly all programs can be written in *one* very large .php file but just > RA> thinking of going back in to make changes 3 months down the road would be a > RA> nightmare. > > I was just looking at this the other day - I had a local site running > here and profiling the index page took around 800ms with 30 include > files. Out of interest I dumped a load of those files into one and > re-profiled it (11 includes rather than 300) and the load time dropped > dramatically (300ms). I know there are other factors at play here > (Windows vs. Unix, cached vs. needing to seek across the hard drive > every time), but the difference still surprised me. Of course I could > never cope with all of those files "as one", but I will definitely > keep them split up locally and combine into one when published live.
I think there was a recent discussion on the internals list that mentioned how the realpath lookup for files is fairly slow and that it can have an impact :/ Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
