Test: time vs. strtotime('now')

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Historical Results

Based on (5) saved test runs, The test labeled "time()" was (on average) the faster by 0.0069 seconds, (1.209% faster)

time() 100%

strtotime('now') 98.791%

The time() test took 0.5661 seconds.
The strtotime('now') test took 0.5731 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 160,130 loops for a total of 3,202,604 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 160,130 loops.
Total difference 6.93 milliseconds for 3,202,604 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.0000) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.0000) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = time();

The second test, "strtotime('now')", was:

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strtotime('now');

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