Test: substr($var, 5, 1) vs. {5}

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The test labeled "substr()" was the faster by 0.0356 seconds, (3.152% faster)

substr() 100%

{5} 96.848%

The substr() test took 1.094 seconds.
The {5} test took 1.1296 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 293,513 loops for a total of 5,870,260 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000006) milliseconds.
Avg difference (1.780) milliseconds per 293,513 loops.
Total difference 35.61 milliseconds for 5,870,260 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.2203) milliseconds and Code 2 was (3.0723) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

for ($j = 0; $j < 100; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = substr($GLOBALS['dummy'], 5, 1);

The second test, "{5}", was:

for ($j = 0; $j < 100; $j++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = $GLOBALS['dummy']{5};

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