Test: strtr vs. str_replace on long strings

String replacement performance on a 37,500 character string.

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "strtr()" was the faster by 0.0498 seconds, (5.281% faster)

strtr() 100%

str_replace() 94.719%

The strtr() test took 0.893 seconds.
The str_replace() test took 0.9428 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 215,175 loops for a total of 4,303,500 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000012) milliseconds.
Avg difference (2.490) milliseconds per 215,175 loops.
Total difference 49.79 milliseconds for 4,303,500 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.5224) milliseconds and Code 2 was (7.5090) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

strtr($GLOBALS['dummy'], array('string' => 'STRING!'));

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

str_replace('string', 'STRING!', $GLOBALS['dummy']);

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