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I wondered if I should write my code clean and readable or rather small and unreadable… Or should I write it readable and then compress it afterwards when I’m publishing it on the web?
Ps. I’m building a web app,
the faster, the better!
Thanks_
PHP parses the code before executing. The first stage is tokenization, which throws out all comments and whitespaces, and converts all identifiers to tokens. This means neither meaningfull names, nor sensible comments and clean formatting will have any effects at runtime. In fact all speed effects you seem to expect from compression are already lost during tokenization.
If you do have “bigger” source files due to clean coding, then tokenization will effectively take longer. However this effect is barely meassurable compared to actual parsing and execution.
If you feel you want to optimize at that point, please consider using eaccelerator, which makes an actual difference.
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