[eluser]romero619[/eluser]
Just curious:
has there been any kind of effort to benchmark the use of CI with a base of code files that have been compacted (i.e., all comments & extra white space removed) ???
Perhaps the performance hit from all of the extra comments & linebreaks/whitespace might be negligible on an individual file basis, but, considering the relatively large number of files in CI that need to be loaded & interpreted by PHP, couldnt this have a cumulative negative effect on performance???
It would be interesting to test a 'compact' version of CI, with nothing but code (no comments or whitespace).
Im not a PHP or computer expert, but I do know that PHP is an interpreted language (i.e.,not compiled), so it *must* use some resources every time it loads a file and has to chew through 50+ lines of comments & linebreaks & whitespace, right?
again, I know this might be very negligible for most sites, but maybe it might add up in a very large, complex application, where squeezing every little bit of performance helps...
any thoughts?