Test: chr v. pack
Note that this test uses concatenation for many chr()'s vs. one pack(). In a case with many calls to pack(), the result might be different (but this is a less common use.)
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The test labeled "chr()" was the faster by 0.0275 seconds, (3.899% faster)
The chr() test took 0.6766 seconds.
The pack() test took 0.7041 seconds.
Nitty-Gritty
Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 165,963 loops for a total of 3,319,260 runs.
- Line execution difference (0.000008) milliseconds.
- Avg difference (1.373) milliseconds per 165,963 loops.
- Total difference 27.45 milliseconds for 3,319,260 loops
The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (2.0241) milliseconds and Code 2 was (2.4485) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.
Code
The first test, "chr()", was:
$GLOBALS['dummy'] = chr(65) . chr(65) . chr(65) . chr(65);
The second test, "pack()", was:
$GLOBALS['dummy'] = pack('C4', 65, 65, 65, 65);