Test: foreach reference reading

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.0098 seconds, (0.969% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 99.031%

The non-referenced test took 1.0039 seconds.
The referenced test took 1.0137 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 264,583 loops for a total of 5,291,660 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.491) milliseconds per 264,583 loops.
Total difference 9.82 milliseconds for 5,291,660 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (2.3916) milliseconds and Code 2 was (3.1671) 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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