Test: time vs. microtime(true)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "microtime(true)" was the faster by 0.0781 seconds, (11.439% faster)

microtime(true) 100%

time() 88.561%

The microtime(true) test took 0.6044 seconds.
The time() test took 0.6825 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 126,869 loops for a total of 2,537,380 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000031) milliseconds.
Avg difference (3.904) milliseconds per 126,869 loops.
Total difference 78.08 milliseconds for 2,537,380 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (7.6860) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.5094) 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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