Does going in and out php tags slows down overall execution process?

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Solution:

Well I honestly don't know. So the only way to find out is to create a small benchmark script.

I have created a benchmark script before so I modified my code to suit your question :

<?php
function loadtime_start(){
    $time = microtime();
    $time = explode(' ', $time);
    $time = $time[1] + $time[0];
    $start = $time;

    return($start);
}
function loadtime_end($start){
    $time = microtime();
    $time = explode(' ', $time);
    $time = $time[1] + $time[0];
    $finish = $time;
    $total_time = round(($finish - $start), 4);

    return($total_time);
}




$start = loadtime_start();

for($i = 0; $i<100000; $i++){
    ?>
    We have something I guess bro!<br />
    <?php
}

$inout_time = loadtime_end($start);
$start = loadtime_start();
for($i = 0; $i<100000; $i++){
    echo 'We have something I guess bro!<br />';
}
$php_echo_time = loadtime_end($start);



echo 'Time for in / out : '.$inout_time.PHP_EOL.'Time for PHP echo :'.$php_echo_time;

Simply run this script and you'll know the result.

My results are :

Time for in / out : 0.1009 Time for PHP echo :0.1705