beginner question: long comments

[Anon]

Just a dumb question:

Since php files are parsed on the fly rather than compiled, does adding lots of long comments affect the performance of scripts? Or does the zend engine effectively skip over comment lines?

thanks!
drew

[Anon]

This Manish I am recently shifting in to this PHP can help me , how to start with this application development and give me the some tips to implement the application.what is the minimum requied software develop the application.like write the code server configuration etc..
Manish