[SOLVED] Two quick questions?

[VirusDoctor]

Hi guys, I have two quick questions to ask (this is really for the people that really know the answer to this, no assumptions or guesses please)

 

Firstly, if a person has many comments or comment blocks in a script, does it slow the script down at all? Like are the comments seen by the server or are they merely ignored?

 

Secondly, if one has a fairly big functions.php file included throughout a script and certain pages of the script only use a few of the functions in the functions.php file, is the whole file processed by php or does it only fetch the functions it needs for that page and ignore the rest? In short, does this slow a script down?

 

Thanks in advance for the reply guys.

 

Shaun

[nafetski]

It's very unlikely you'll see a delay in PHP having to read through comments...tho yes, the entire file is read and parsed...even if it is not all executed (in the case of your functions)

[VirusDoctor]

Thanks for the reply, so the conclusion is that comments dont slow things down much (it at all) and including a large functions.php file in a script many times probably will slow things down.

 

Correct?

 

Shaun