Test: file vs. file_get_contents (array)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "file_get_contents()" was the faster by 0.0311 seconds, (5.136% faster)

file_get_contents() 100%

file() 94.864%

The file_get_contents() test took 0.5749 seconds.
The file() test took 0.606 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 133,438 loops for a total of 2,668,760 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000012) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.556) milliseconds per 133,438 loops.
Total difference 31.13 milliseconds for 2,668,760 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.1819) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.1387) 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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