Test: strftime vs. localtime

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The test labeled "strftime()" was the faster by 0.0139 seconds, (2.616% faster)

strftime() 100%

localtime() 97.384%

The strftime() test took 0.5161 seconds.
The localtime() test took 0.53 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 124,367 loops for a total of 2,487,340 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000006) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.693) milliseconds per 124,367 loops.
Total difference 13.86 milliseconds for 2,487,340 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.1242) milliseconds and Code 2 was (1.1629) 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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