As a matter of fact, going into and out of HTML blocks generates pretty
much the same intermediate code as echo does - echo is built into the
language at the very same level. If you use printf() or something like
that, though, you'll feel a significant difference.
That wasn't the case in PHP 3.0
It has always been my understanding that in/out is faster as PHP does not
have to evalutate the terms for variables. The best test would be to use an
app like apache bench (aka: ab) against the two pages. Like this:
Test 1
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results:
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This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3c <$Revisi
