Differences between require and include?

[John_Betong]

There is a time difference in includes and requires.

Include/require performance

Profiling my scripts, the biggest drain on performance is the autoloader, specifically the require/include line. A current site includes 38 files. I did a quick test using include/require/require once/include once. Profiling just the autoload function and changing only the include/require line here’s what I got just as a very basic test. [table=“width: 500”] [tr] [td]require_once[/td] [td]124.75ms[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]require[/td] [td]116.64ms[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]include_once[/td] […