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 0.0718 seconds, (10.500% faster)

ord() 100%

unpack() 89.5%

The ord() test took 0.6122 seconds.
The unpack() test took 0.6841 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 136,500 loops for a total of 2,730,000 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000026) milliseconds.
Avg difference (3.592) milliseconds per 136,500 loops.
Total difference 71.83 milliseconds for 2,730,000 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.7545) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.6521) 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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