Test: date vs. strftime

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The test labeled "date()" was the faster by 0.0162 seconds, (2.015% faster)

date() 100%

strftime() 97.985%

The date() test took 0.7895 seconds.
The strftime() test took 0.8058 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 199,396 loops for a total of 3,987,920 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000004) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.812) milliseconds per 199,396 loops.
Total difference 16.24 milliseconds for 3,987,920 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (4.5683) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.6287) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = date('Y-m-d \\a\\t H:i:s', $GLOBALS['t']);

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

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strftime('%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M:%S', $GLOBALS['t']);

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