Test: foreach reference writing

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.0181 seconds, (1.689% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 98.311%

The non-referenced test took 1.0543 seconds.
The referenced test took 1.0724 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 255,361 loops for a total of 5,107,220 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000004) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.905) milliseconds per 255,361 loops.
Total difference 18.11 milliseconds for 5,107,220 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.8117) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.2102) 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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