@devmount The single vs. double quotes myth is really just that, a myth. A misunderstanding. As long as there is no $ in the string it does not make any difference. Parsing must be done for both anyway because ' strings can contain \' and such. maettig.com/code/php/php-p…
I can confirm that the single vs. double quotes myth is really just a myth. At least for the PHP 7.2+ (maybe this originates from ver early PHP versions). I did a quick benchmark:
You can say with caution, that in average, double quotes are slightly (and I really mean very slightly!) faster than single quotes. We're talking about a max of 2ms on 5 million iterations... Obviously only, if no variable is replaced.
Not yet, but I will create a test with the current PHP version and will come back when I have results 👍🏻
In the meantime, see this:
I did a quick benchmark, see this comment:
I can confirm that the single vs. double quotes myth is really just a myth. At least for the PHP 7.2+ (maybe this originates from ver early PHP versions). I did a quick benchmark:
You can say with caution, that in average, double quotes are slightly (and I really mean very slightly!) faster than single quotes. We're talking about a max of 2ms on 5 million iterations... Obviously only, if no variable is replaced.
Great! Just for the convention is used so. Thanks, Andreas.
My pleasure 😊