[NCLUG] programming question

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:40:15PM -0600, mike cullerton wrote:
> > It helps to understand what resources you're trying to conserve.
> 
> i hadn't really thought about it specifically, but now that you ask, i'd say
> processing or maybe even latency. this is a web based program written in
> php. in an earlier prototype of this app, i had one page that took a long
> time to load. that turned out to be a mysql problem. i fixed it by adding a
> new index.
> 
> so, would any particular approach add an extra amount of processing or
> latency?

The only way to discover that is to profile the three different 
approaches and see which one takes more processing or have higher latency.

Evelyn