Test: strftime vs. localtime

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The test labeled "strftime()" was the faster by 0.0254 seconds, (3.783% faster)

strftime() 100%

localtime() 96.217%

The strftime() test took 0.6461 seconds.
The localtime() test took 0.6715 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 141,639 loops for a total of 2,832,780 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000009) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.270) milliseconds per 141,639 loops.
Total difference 25.41 milliseconds for 2,832,780 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.5701) milliseconds and Code 2 was (5.5419) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = (int) strftime('%d', $GLOBALS['t']);

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

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
{
	$temp = localtime($GLOBALS['t'], true);
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = $temp['tm_mday'];
}

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