Test: file vs. file_get_contents (array)

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The test labeled "file_get_contents()" was the faster by 0.0355 seconds, (3.353% faster)

file_get_contents() 100%

file() 96.647%

The file_get_contents() test took 1.0245 seconds.
The file() test took 1.06 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 233,373 loops for a total of 4,667,460 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000008) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.777) milliseconds per 233,373 loops.
Total difference 35.55 milliseconds for 4,667,460 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (7.4859) milliseconds and Code 2 was (7.4733) 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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