Performance question

[turb]

Hi,

I am working on a huge site and need to include several file in some page (classes, function, header, footer, etc...).

So I have 2 questions:

1- Is there a limit number of include files?

2- Is is better to include alot of small file (ex... one class per page) or one big file (with all classes) if sometime I may only need 1 class.

Thank

[bluefrogx]

1. No practical limit unless you feel like including a gazillion files
2. Smaller files.

I commonly have lots of files that are 'grouped' according to what classes I'd need often. (I have no idea if that makes sense to you)

[praetor]

About many smaller files: If you don't use a php accelerator you'll suffer a big performance hit. And depending on your files structure layout you might have to write quite a few of "require_once".

[Jake Arkinstall]

I just put a single class in a file, and, in one file, require all of the class files.

Then just require that file.

[wonshikee]

I read somewhere about a performance benchmark regarding functions,

Where the author wanted to see if having a bunch of functions that never get called affected performance - and he found out having thousands of functions but not ever calling 'em made very little performance difference.

So going off that I would think that a single large file with alot of classes is more beneficial, but I've never seen any data regarding that.

[Tarh]

If you're primarily using object oriented programming, consider registering an autoload function to prevent you from having to include files that you don't need.