double vs single quotes in PHP

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 200

This is really an small suggestion that can be really ignored..

PLA makes use of double quotes where will be best use single quotes.
Remember that double quotes in PHP "expands" string while single quotes not. There
are many code in PLA with double quoted strings where it really do not need expansion
so single quote is a little (very little) more efficient because PHP skips the expansion
process.

Reported by is2cool4me on 2013-03-21 11:11:17

[Christopher Kramer]

Yeah, well. Not worth the effort, but yes.
In my opinion, removing a line of HTML output would be bigger optimization than this.
If a millisecond that could be saved by this counts, then you shouldn't use php, but
another language.

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2013-03-21 13:21:18

[dreadnaut]

We briefly touched on this in issue #181 (comments #29-#33*) but although probably more
efficient, the number of strings required to make a noticeable difference is orders
of magnitude larger than what we have (and we have many!).

So we'll concentrate on reducing the number even more, rather than making each one
of them a microsecond faster :)

I'll mark this as Won't-Fix, although we are aware of the micro-optimization option.

[*]http://code.google.com/p/phpliteadmin/issues/detail?id=181#c29

Reported by dreadnaut on 2013-03-21 13:27:20 - Status changed: WontFix

[Former user]

Yes all this is true, is small compared with other questions, is simply a suggestion
(if possible). I'm using PLA to admin remote (sloooowww.... GRPS) embedded systems
and things needs much more time than on a desktop computer, each microsecond counts..

Reported by is2cool4me on 2013-03-21 15:43:05

[Christopher Kramer]

That's interesting. What is the minimal hardware you run PLA on?

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2013-03-21 16:20:59

[Former user]

The system has an ARM AT91RM9200 running at 180MHz (about 90 bogomips) with 64Mb SRAM
and 16Mb FLASH. The most big program I'm running is PHP, that has 2.5Mb, witch is greater
even than kernel.

Reported by is2cool4me on 2013-03-21 16:38:30

[dreadnaut]

That's very cool. We should get Issue #78 fixed for people with little memory available,
'cause I guess it would make a noticeable difference even with smaller sets.

Reported by dreadnaut on 2013-03-21 16:42:51

[Christopher Kramer]

Cool. Thanks for the info. That's about as much as the guy running PLA on a TP-Link
(openWRT) router in issue #112 (you have a slower cpu, but far more memory). Do you
have similar problems? I mean, the UI being slow is probably expected - but problems
of records not updated completely?

There will be a time when every fridge comes with PLA just as a maintenance gui :-)

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2013-03-21 16:48:01

[Christopher Kramer]

>  We should get Issue #78 fixed for people with little memory available,
Agreed.

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2013-03-21 16:49:27

[Former user]

No, at the moment I don't have any problem other than slow UI, from 1 to 2 seconds on
LAN. But when connecting through a GPRS connection.. up to 10 times slower, depends
on network coverage.
PLA is very nice for maintenance.. I love it.. it make my live more easy..

Reported by is2cool4me on 2013-03-21 17:10:25