Question

I’m writing a Content Management System in PHP, and I want it to be the smallest one in the world. I’m planning to make it available to everyone, just like Drupal and Joomla. But to make it so ultra-tiny, I change code to smaller code.

For example, I change:

$info = parse_ini_file("info.scm"); /* to */ $i=parse_ini_file("info.scm");

just to make it smaller. But, I use some functions very often, like preg_replace();. I use it over 30 times. Should I make a function like:

function p($p,$r,$s){preg_replace($p,$r,$s);}
//and than just use:
p($my_regex, $my_replacement, $my_string);

or does this make it all work slower?

Notice that my goal is to make it so tiny as possible.

Answer 1

It makes sense when it is code you need to push to a client (JavaScript from a server for example) but when it runs locally on the server, as is the case for php, there is little (if any) performance gain.