Agreed that sometimes it's right for control-flow purposes. Hence why I pointed out in the OP thread that I've used it before. But that's not the justification

Agreed that sometimes it's right for control-flow purposes. Hence why I pointed out in the OP thread that I've used it before. But that's not the justification being used by the code author; his justification is purely performance. >> "Why is it inexperienced programmers go through a phase where they think goto is evil incarnate? I wish Dijkstra had never written that damn paper." You seem to be referencing my comments. I'm not inexperienced, and I don't think goto is evil incarnate. I do believe that optimizing for individual CPU cycles in PHP is generally pointless.