Test: foreach (fcall) vs. foreach ($temp)

Is the array being iterated cached? It could cause some nasty side effects to OOP if it is, but maybe PHP is smart about this.

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "foreach (fcall)" was the faster by 0.0619 seconds, (7.521% faster)

foreach (fcall) 100%

foreach ($temp) 92.479%

The foreach (fcall) test took 0.7609 seconds.
The foreach ($temp) test took 0.8228 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 155,014 loops for a total of 3,100,280 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000020) milliseconds.
Avg difference (3.094) milliseconds per 155,014 loops.
Total difference 61.88 milliseconds for 3,100,280 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (6.6388) milliseconds and Code 2 was (9.2184) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "foreach (fcall)", was:

foreach (array_merge(range(1, 10), range(11, 20), range(21, 30), range(31, 40)) as $v)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = $v;

The second test, "foreach ($temp)", was:

$temp = array_merge(range(1, 10), range(11, 20), range(21, 30), range(31, 40));
foreach ($temp as $v)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = $v;

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