Test: preg_replace vs. str

Test: preg_replace vs. str_replace

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "str_replace()" was the faster by 0.0053 seconds, (0.906% faster)

str_replace() 100%

preg_replace() 99.094%

The str_replace() test took 0.58 seconds.
The preg_replace() test took 0.5853 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 151,651 loops for a total of 3,033,020 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.265) milliseconds per 151,651 loops.
Total difference 5.30 milliseconds for 3,033,020 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.6598) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.9695) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = preg_replace('~([Ww]heat|[Tt]hins)~', 'Nilla', $GLOBALS['dummy']);

The second test, "str_replace()", was:

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = str_replace(array('Wheat', 'Thins', 'wheat', 'thins'), 'Nilla', $GLOBALS['dummy']);

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