Test: ord v. unpack (str keys)

Does unpack (with its strange format string) go any faster than creating your own associative array?

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "ord()" was the faster by 0.0563 seconds, (5.385% faster)

ord() 100%

unpack() 94.615%

The ord() test took 0.9884 seconds.
The unpack() test took 1.0447 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 283,878 loops for a total of 5,677,560 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000010) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.813) milliseconds per 283,878 loops.
Total difference 56.26 milliseconds for 5,677,560 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.5896) milliseconds and Code 2 was (3.8168) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

$GLOBALS['dummy'] = array(
	'a' => ord($GLOBALS['packed']{0}),
	'b' => ord($GLOBALS['packed']{1}),
	'c' => ord($GLOBALS['packed']{2}),
	'd' => ord($GLOBALS['packed']{3}),
);

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

$GLOBALS['dummy'] = unpack('Ca/Cb/Cc/Cd', $GLOBALS['packed']);

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