Test: foreach reference writing

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.0035 seconds, (0.485% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 99.515%

The non-referenced test took 0.718 seconds.
The referenced test took 0.7215 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 182,897 loops for a total of 3,657,940 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000001) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.175) milliseconds per 182,897 loops.
Total difference 3.50 milliseconds for 3,657,940 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.8279) milliseconds and Code 2 was (3.3262) 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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