So I ran a brief benchmark on my vagrant instance recently (nothing fancy, just 50,000 iterations of a single line of code), and I found that htmlspecialchars() performs *significantly* faster than strtr() (a difference of like 37%).
Html::element (and other places in the Html class) prefer using strtr() with a manual list of some elements rather than htmlspecialchars(). The reasoning behind this (I think) is do make the output document slightly smaller by a few bytes by not escaping unnecessary items.
So my question is if the byte reduction is really worth it, or if we would rather have a 37% reduction in escaping speed? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com