Performance impact of cookies

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

Hi, I was just wondering what impact there would be in terms of performance if you where to set then increment the value of a cookie on each page of a site.

Also, being a server side script; how exactly does php retrieve the value of a cookie?

Does the server need to request then wait for the appropriate cookie before displaying any content?

Wouldn't this be slower than querying a database?

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