It's more of a time-consuming issue rather than memory usage IMHO. However, unless you make several extra database requests, I found that running PHP code is generally rather fast and adding considerable extra code doesn't affect the speed significantly. I must reiterate however that if your templating engine uses a database, that might increase parsing duration considerably. For your own tests, take a look at microtime() on php.net.
Bogdan John Holmes wrote: >Is there a way to determine the overhead or memory usage of a PHP script >as it runs? > >What I'm looking at is say I've got this nice simple script to display >info. Now I want to add a database abstraction layer and a template >engine. Sure, this makes it easy for me to control changes, but now I'm >including a dozen other files that I may only use a percentage of. So, >yeah, it's easy to control, but now it may be taking up 10 times as much >memory as it was before. > >So is there a way to see how much memory/overhead a script is taking up >after it does all of its includes? > >Let me know if I need to explain this more. > >I'm on a windows machine, but any ideas you have are welcome. I'm sure >it's more of an OS-type question, though. > >---John Holmes. > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
