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If a PHP script is loaded heavily with comments, does the page load more slowly by Apache (to parse out the comments)?

Jan 22nd, 2002 06:54
Mårten Gustafsson, Ben Udall, Shelly Shaw,

From a mail to php-dev by Andi Gutmans [2021-01-13]:
"As it is a compile first, execute later interpreter it will in 
practice not slow down your code. Of course if your script has only a 
very small amount of flat code (no loops/function calls) and a huge 
amount of comments (tens of KB) then it could theoretically make a 
difference but in reality it doesn't."