Test: Exceptions vs. return code (fail)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "Exceptions" was the faster by 0.0657 seconds, (5.775% faster)

Exceptions 100%

return code 94.225%

The Exceptions test took 1.072 seconds.
The return code test took 1.1377 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 279,573 loops for a total of 5,591,460 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000012) milliseconds.
Avg difference (3.285) milliseconds per 279,573 loops.
Total difference 65.70 milliseconds for 5,591,460 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (6.6573) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.3789) 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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