Test: time vs. microtime(true)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "time()" was the faster by 0.0135 seconds, (1.386% faster)

time() 100%

microtime(true) 98.614%

The time() test took 0.9588 seconds.
The microtime(true) test took 0.9723 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 264,875 loops for a total of 5,297,500 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000003) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.674) milliseconds per 264,875 loops.
Total difference 13.48 milliseconds for 5,297,500 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.9860) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.7410) 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, "microtime(true)", was:

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

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