Test: foreach writing ref vs. key

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "non-referenced" was the faster by 0.0597 seconds, (4.278% faster)

non-referenced 100%

referenced 95.722%

The non-referenced test took 1.336 seconds.
The referenced test took 1.3957 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 282,112 loops for a total of 5,642,240 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000011) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.986) milliseconds per 282,112 loops.
Total difference 59.71 milliseconds for 5,642,240 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (10.1330) milliseconds and Code 2 was (7.9293) 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)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'][$k][1]++;
unset($v);

The second test, "referenced", was:

foreach ($GLOBALS['dummy'] as $k => &$v)
	$v[1]++;
unset($v);

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