On Sat, October 27, 2007 9:40 am, Colleen R. Dick wrote:

I realize I'm WAY behind, but...

> People:
> Back to PHP basics: PHP is flawed but not *THAT* flawed.
> (apologies to most of you who know this) here is how it rolls.
> Double quotes and single treat embedded variables differently.
> "foo" and 'foo' happen to be the same because
> there is no variable in it. For this reason single quotes are more
> efficient.

Single-quotes are not significantly more efficient than double quotes.

Note that single-quotes STILL have some special characters:
\'
\\
So the parser has to iterate over each character with a 1-char
look-ahead (or look-behind) to know what to do.

Double-quotes has a slightly larger 'switch' statement for what to
*DO* with the special characters, but that's not a significant time
savings.

The "single-quotes is faster" answer is essentially an urban legend. :-)

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