Test: time vs. microtime(true)

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The test labeled "time()" was the faster by 0.0081 seconds, (1.459% faster)

time() 100%

microtime(true) 98.541%

The time() test took 0.5442 seconds.
The microtime(true) test took 0.5522 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 153,525 loops for a total of 3,070,500 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000003) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.403) milliseconds per 153,525 loops.
Total difference 8.06 milliseconds for 3,070,500 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.5592) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.6412) 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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