Test: is_string vs. Casting

Cast vs is_string

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "is_float" was the faster by 0.0318 seconds, (2.391% faster)

is_float 100%

Casting 97.609%

The is_float test took 1.299 seconds.
The Casting test took 1.3308 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 275,216 loops for a total of 5,504,320 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000006) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.591) milliseconds per 275,216 loops.
Total difference 31.82 milliseconds for 5,504,320 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (9.2719) milliseconds and Code 2 was (5.3239) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "is_float", was:

$a = is_string($GLOBALS['test']);

The second test, "Casting", was:

$a = (string) $GLOBALS['test'] === $GLOBALS['test'];

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