Test: Exceptions vs. return code (fail)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "return code" was the faster by 0.0705 seconds, (10.330% faster)

return code 100%

Exceptions 89.67%

The return code test took 0.6123 seconds.
The Exceptions test took 0.6828 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 138,437 loops for a total of 2,768,740 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000025) milliseconds.
Avg difference (3.527) milliseconds per 138,437 loops.
Total difference 70.53 milliseconds for 2,768,740 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.4709) milliseconds and Code 2 was (7.5229) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "return code", was:

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
{
	if (return_false() === false)
		$GLOBALS['dummy']++;
}

The second test, "Exceptions", was:

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
{
	try
	{
		throw_exception();
	}
	catch (Exception $e)
	{
		$GLOBALS['dummy']++;
	}
}

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