[eluser]obobo[/eluser]
Sure i'll do the honors
I'm not sure this counts as benchmarking,
but last night i timed the execution of a simple page returning 10 rows from the db
The average time (calculated from within the controller) was
.0031 seconds when the loop was within the view and the view was only called once
and
.0062 seconds when the loop called the view each time to display the results
I am very wet behind the ears when it comes to issues like performance
so i'm not sure if there are any other variables that could be affecting the results
or if timing from within the controller would be accurate,
(which is why i still posted the question)
but the two pages tested were identical except for the way the db results were displayed.