On 10/14/05, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can understand that file_get_contents is going to add SOME overhead, > but 3 seconds sounds a bit "too much"
Yeah, it's like half a second or so of overhead when I test it against wget: > for x in 1 2 3 4 5; do php -r 'system( "time `wget yahoo.com >/dev/null > 2>&1`" );'; time php -r 'file_get_contents( "http://yahoo.com" );'; done real 0m0.462s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.011s real 0m0.999s user 0m0.164s sys 0m0.222s real 0m0.343s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.006s real 0m0.976s user 0m0.162s sys 0m0.225s real 0m0.337s user 0m0.007s sys 0m0.010s real 0m1.182s user 0m0.158s sys 0m0.230s real 0m0.340s user 0m0.007s sys 0m0.010s real 0m0.969s user 0m0.159s sys 0m0.226s real 0m0.336s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.007s real 0m0.978s user 0m0.160s sys 0m0.225s -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer MySQL Core Certification http://destiney.com/