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 0.0225 seconds, (3.662% faster)
The chr() test took 0.5925 seconds.
The pack() test took 0.615 seconds.
Nitty-Gritty
Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 134,486 loops for a total of 2,689,720 runs.
- Line execution difference (0.000008) milliseconds.
- Avg difference (1.126) milliseconds per 134,486 loops.
- Total difference 22.52 milliseconds for 2,689,720 loops
The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.7891) milliseconds and Code 2 was (5.9094) 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);