Re: How expensive is glob'ing a dir and including all the files? [message #179145 is a reply to message #179144] |
Fri, 14 September 2012 23:43 |
Michael Fesser
Messages: 215 Registered: September 2010
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.oO(Jerry Stuckle)
> On 9/14/2012 6:24 PM, J. Frank Parnell wrote:
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>> When I do properties locally, on Win, it says size: 408KB, size on disc:
>> 720KB. Compared to the wordpress 'includes' dir at 5Megs, doesnt seem
>> like much, although i'm not sure if wp includes that whole dir, always.
>> Would it be more efficient to concatenate my include files?
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> As others have said - include only what you need. The time consuming
> part is parsing the PHP code, not reading one or more files.
> Concatenating will still require PHP to parse the code.
Sure, but it makes a difference if you include a hundred files, each
with a single function, or if you just include a single file containing
all those functions.
It would make sense to group all the functions into semantic units and
put these into single files or classes. Then include the units you need.
Micha
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