Test: preg_match vs. strpos (simple)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "preg_match()" was the faster by 0.0849 seconds, (7.547% faster)

preg_match() 100%

strpos() 92.453%

The preg_match() test took 1.0402 seconds.
The strpos() test took 1.1252 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 271,212 loops for a total of 5,424,240 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000016) milliseconds.
Avg difference (4.246) milliseconds per 271,212 loops.
Total difference 84.92 milliseconds for 5,424,240 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.2106) milliseconds and Code 2 was (9.0720) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

if (preg_match('~http://www\.google\.com/~', $GLOBALS['dummy']) != 0)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = 42;

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

if (strpos($GLOBALS['dummy'], 'http://wwww.google.com/') !== false)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = 42;

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