Test: foreach reference reading

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The test labeled "referenced" was the faster by 0.0028 seconds, (0.417% faster)

referenced 100%

non-referenced 99.583%

The referenced test took 0.6663 seconds.
The non-referenced test took 0.6691 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 121,538 loops for a total of 2,430,760 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000001) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.139) milliseconds per 121,538 loops.
Total difference 2.79 milliseconds for 2,430,760 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (6.7740) milliseconds and Code 2 was (6.8662) 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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