Test: foreach reference reading

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "referenced" was the faster by 0.0044 seconds, (0.445% faster)

referenced 100%

non-referenced 99.555%

The referenced test took 0.9734 seconds.
The non-referenced test took 0.9778 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 249,586 loops for a total of 4,991,720 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000001) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.218) milliseconds per 249,586 loops.
Total difference 4.35 milliseconds for 4,991,720 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (2.6811) milliseconds and Code 2 was (2.0796) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "non-referenced", was:

foreach ($GLOBALS['dummy'] as $k => $v)
	$v[0] + 1;
unset($v);

The second test, "referenced", was:

foreach ($GLOBALS['dummy'] as $k => &$v)
	$v[0] + 1;
unset($v);

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