Re: [binarycloud-dev] coding standards

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> I asked Andrei here (PHP core developer) about this speed issue. He
> seems to think that echo should be marginally faster than breaking in
> and out of the HTML inline. He thinks this example is too short for a
> fair speed test (probably some state switching setup on the first time
> that won't happen on subsequent switches?), an atypical scenario. This
> is an extremely marginal difference, hardly a concern.

this is what I thought, that breaking, i.e.

?>
<html>
<?

does take a _tiny_ bit more time, but it is so small as to be negligible.
there's probably a similar difference between:

echo "text";
and
echo 'text';

(one is interpreted, the other is not)

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