Test: file vs. file_get_contents (array)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "file()" was the faster by 0.0532 seconds, (5.014% faster)

file() 100%

file_get_contents() 94.986%

The file() test took 1.0075 seconds.
The file_get_contents() test took 1.0607 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 284,359 loops for a total of 5,687,180 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000009) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.659) milliseconds per 284,359 loops.
Total difference 53.19 milliseconds for 5,687,180 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.3167) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.6384) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

$lines = file('supplement/dummy.inc');
foreach ($lines as $line)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = rtrim($line);

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

$lines = explode("\n", str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r"), "\n", file_get_contents('supplement/dummy.inc')));
foreach ($lines as $line)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = $line;

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