Does OOP make PHP slower?

simopal6 · 04-20-2007, 12:35 PM

Hello!
I've been programming in PHP for some years, and i almost immediately began using classes because i like OOP. Now i'm asking this question: does using many classes make execution slower? I think it does, but i wonder if the waste of time is considerable.
Do you know?
Thanks

AdaHacker · 04-20-2007, 06:41 PM

Short answer: yes. According to this link, method calls on objects are about twice as slow as normal function calls. However, that's a few years old, so things may have improved since then. I don't know if that qualifies as "considerable," but it's not insignificant. Though I don't think it's enough to abandon OOP.

95se · 04-20-2007, 10:13 PM

I find the things that really slow down PHP scripts aren't function calls and what not, but disk and database access. I wouldn't worry about it. Plus, OO code is so much easier to build and modify.