Test: strncmp vs. strpos (long)

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

Historical Results

Based on (1) saved test runs, The test labeled "strncmp()" was (on average) the faster by 0.0475 seconds, (5.349% faster)

strncmp() 100%

strpos() 94.651%

The strncmp() test took 0.8397 seconds.
The strpos() test took 0.8872 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 186,703 loops for a total of 3,734,060 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000013) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 186,703 loops.
Total difference 47.45 milliseconds for 3,734,060 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, "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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