Test: foreach reference writing

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The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.0082 seconds, (1.523% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 98.477%

The non-referenced test took 0.5298 seconds.
The referenced test took 0.538 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 117,751 loops for a total of 2,355,020 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000003) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.410) milliseconds per 117,751 loops.
Total difference 8.19 milliseconds for 2,355,020 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.6656) milliseconds and Code 2 was (1.7353) 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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