Test: (string) vs. concat

Concatenating to a string always results in a string, but isn't a cast faster?

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "(string)" was the faster by 0.0105 seconds, (0.869% faster)

(string) 100%

$string . '' 99.131%

The (string) test took 1.2028 seconds.
The $string . '' test took 1.2133 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 278,923 loops for a total of 5,578,460 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.527) milliseconds per 278,923 loops.
Total difference 10.54 milliseconds for 5,578,460 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (8.3530) milliseconds and Code 2 was (8.6580) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "(string)", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 1000; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = (string) $j;

The second test, "$string . ''", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 1000; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = $j . '';

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