Test: urlencode vs. base64

Test: urlencode vs. base64_encode

Is urlencode() faster than base64_encode()

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "base64_encode()" was the faster by 0.0015 seconds, (0.263% faster)

base64_encode() 100%

urlencode() 99.737%

The base64_encode() test took 0.572 seconds.
The urlencode() test took 0.5736 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 133,036 loops for a total of 2,660,720 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000001) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.076) milliseconds per 133,036 loops.
Total difference 1.51 milliseconds for 2,660,720 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (4.7629) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.5937) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

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

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = urlencode($GLOBALS['dummy']);

The second test, "base64_encode()", was:

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = base64_encode($GLOBALS['dummy']);

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