Test: foreach reference writing

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.1009 seconds, (8.223% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 91.777%

The non-referenced test took 1.126 seconds.
The referenced test took 1.2269 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 279,620 loops for a total of 5,592,400 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000018) milliseconds.
Avg difference (5.044) milliseconds per 279,620 loops.
Total difference 100.88 milliseconds for 5,592,400 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (6.0546) milliseconds and Code 2 was (11.8996) 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)
	$v[0]++;
unset($v);

The second test, "referenced", was:

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

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