Test: foreach vs. while (next)

Some people say that next() is faster than a foreach. Is it really? Note that this code won't work at all if the array has false values in it.

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "foreach" was the faster by 0.0085 seconds, (0.867% faster)

foreach 100%

while (next) 99.133%

The foreach test took 0.9702 seconds.
The while (next) test took 0.9787 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 278,598 loops for a total of 5,571,960 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.424) milliseconds per 278,598 loops.
Total difference 8.48 milliseconds for 5,571,960 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.3475) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.1871) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "foreach", was:

foreach ($GLOBALS['dummy'] as $v)
	$v[0] + 1;

The second test, "while (next)", was:

reset($GLOBALS['dummy']);
while (($v = next($GLOBALS['dummy'])) !== false)
	$v[0] + 1;

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