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 (5) saved test runs, The test labeled "strncmp()" was (on average) the faster by 0.0144 seconds, (1.709% faster)

strncmp() 100%

strpos() 98.291%

The strncmp() test took 0.8276 seconds.
The strpos() test took 0.842 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 201,081 loops for a total of 4,021,624 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000004) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 201,081 loops.
Total difference 14.39 milliseconds for 4,021,624 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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