Test: sockets blocking vs. not

Normal sockets in PHP are blocking. Does using a select manually improve things for just a single socket? Note this test depends on external things, and so is fairly inaccurate.

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "blocking" was the faster by 0.0543 seconds, (4.460% faster)

blocking 100%

non-blocking 95.54%

The blocking test took 1.1633 seconds.
The non-blocking test took 1.2176 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 218,282 loops for a total of 4,365,640 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000012) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.715) milliseconds per 218,282 loops.
Total difference 54.30 milliseconds for 4,365,640 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (13.2164) milliseconds and Code 2 was (11.2980) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "blocking", was:

$fp = fsockopen('127.0.0.1', 80, $errno, $error);
fwrite($fp,
	'GET / HTTP/1.1' . "\r\n" .
	'Host: localhost' . "\r\n\r\n");

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = fread($fp, 100);
fclose($fp);

The second test, "non-blocking", was:

$fp = fsockopen('127.0.0.1', 80, $errno, $error);
stream_set_blocking($fp, false);

$r = array($fp);
$w = array($fp);
$e = array();

if (stream_select($e, $w, $e, 2))
	fwrite($fp,
	'GET / HTTP/1.1' . "\r\n" .
	'Host: localhost' . "\r\n\r\n");

if (stream_select($r, $e, $e, 2))
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = fread($fp, 100);

fclose($fp);

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