Test: array_unique vs. !isset (integers)

Do note that this test is only using integer values (which is common for this), long strings will take longer to hash as array keys.

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Historical Results

Based on (3) saved test runs, The test labeled "array_unique()" was (on average) the faster by 0.029 seconds, (2.822% faster)

array_unique() 100%

!isset() 97.178%

The array_unique() test took 1.0002 seconds.
The !isset() test took 1.0293 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 236,828 loops for a total of 4,736,567 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000006) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 236,828 loops.
Total difference 29.05 milliseconds for 4,736,567 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.0000) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.0000) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "!isset()", was:

$array = array();
for ($n = 0; $n < 8; $n++)
	for ($i = 0; $i < 50; $i++)
	{
		if (!isset($array[$i]))
			$array[$i] = $i;
	}

The second test, "array_unique()", was:

$array = array();
for ($n = 0; $n < 8; $n++)
{
	for ($i = 0; $i < 50; $i++)
		$array[] = $i;
}

$array = array_unique($array);

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