Test: Last Character

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Historical Results

Based on (4) saved test runs, The test labeled "substr()" was (on average) the faster by 0.0317 seconds, (3.787% faster)

substr() 100%

$str[] 96.213%

The substr() test took 0.8062 seconds.
The $str[] test took 0.8379 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 179,919 loops for a total of 3,598,380 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000009) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 179,919 loops.
Total difference 31.73 milliseconds for 3,598,380 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (0.0000) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.0000) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "substr()", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 1000; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = substr($GLOBALS['dummy'], -1);

The second test, "$str[]", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 1000; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = $GLOBALS['dummy'][strlen($GLOBALS['dummy'])-1];

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