Which will perform faster?

PHP
1 

<?php
$me="geek";
echo $me;
echo "<br/>";
echo "Hi";
?>

or



<?php
$me="geek";
echo $me;
?>

// then put the break as HTML outside the PHP code,

<br/>

// and then complete the code with another <?php tag: 


<?php
echo "Hi";

?>
2

I don’t think it matters a lot, but I do know it would get insanely annoying to break up your php blocks for some html text and make your code really awful to look at or handle.

3

The one with 1 echo statement will perform the fastest.

4

Did you try? Did you notice a difference? If you did, try again :wink:
Maybe if you would execute that piece of code thousands of times…

5

In my test with Apache Bench, I can get ~600 requests per second from the first form, whereas I can only get ~300 requests per second from the second way you have it there.

I don’t remember if PHP flushes the output buffer when it encounters an HTML token, but if it does I’m sure that’s got something to do with the difference.