Test: echo vs. ?>...<?php (static)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "echo" was the faster by 0.0245 seconds, (2.602% faster)

echo 100%

<?php ?> 97.398%

The echo test took 0.9172 seconds.
The <?php ?> test took 0.9417 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 230,013 loops for a total of 4,600,260 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000005) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.225) milliseconds per 230,013 loops.
Total difference 24.50 milliseconds for 4,600,260 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.0320) milliseconds and Code 2 was (1.7179) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "echo", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 100; $j++)
	echo 'some text';

The second test, "<?php ?>", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 100; $j++)
{
	?>some text<?php
}

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