Spending most of the day optimizing a page that (when I began) took 8.6 seconds to execute. Using some basic profiling techniques helped tremendously in not wasting my time and efforts attempting to optimize a portion of code that won’t yield appreciable gains. The time intensive code for applications I write generally fall into either [...]

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Had to quickly get the execution time of certain segments of code so I whipped up this basic profiling class below. Usage would go something like: <?php $profiler = new cProfiler; $profiler->start(); // … long block of code … $et = $profiler->end(); echo ‘longBlock et = ‘.$et.’<br>’; ?> Class listing cProfiler.php: <?php class cProfiler { [...]

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