Test: strncmp vs. strpos (long)

2000 character string, check if a substring exists in a defined location, both pass and fail paths.

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "strncmp()" was the faster by 0.0503 seconds, (4.670% faster)

strncmp() 100%

strpos() 95.33%

The strncmp() test took 1.0271 seconds.
The strpos() test took 1.0774 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 279,527 loops for a total of 5,590,540 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000009) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.516) milliseconds per 279,527 loops.
Total difference 50.32 milliseconds for 5,590,540 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (2.4566) milliseconds and Code 2 was (5.6660) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

for ($j = 0; $j < 40; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strncmp($GLOBALS['dummy_match'], '01234', 5) === 0;
for ($j = 0; $j < 40; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strncmp($GLOBALS['dummy_fail'], '01234', 5) === 0;

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

for ($j = 0; $j < 40; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strpos($GLOBALS['dummy_match'], '01234') === 0;
for ($j = 0; $j < 40; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strpos($GLOBALS['dummy_fail'], '01234') === 0;

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