Spaces, line breaks, tabs ; are they affect server performance?

Question

Spaces, line breaks, tabs ; are they affect server performance ?

I\'m in the road of learning PHP and before I go further with my current coding style, i want to ma

Answer 1

No. The extra formatting will not affect performance at all*.

Choose the coding style you like -- that is also acceptable for the team/project/existing code -- and, most importantly, be consistent. (Using an editor with customizable syntax formatting is helpful.)

Happy coding.

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*While it could be argued that an insignificant increase IO may occur and an insignificant greater amount of symbols must be read by the lexer, the final result is: there will be no performance decrease.