Test: urlencode vs. base64

Test: urlencode vs. base64_encode

Is urlencode() faster than base64_encode()

Historical Results

Based on (2) saved test runs, The test labeled "base64_encode()" was (on average) the faster by 0.0175 seconds, (2.903% faster)

base64_encode() 100%

urlencode() 97.097%

The base64_encode() test took 0.5845 seconds.
The urlencode() test took 0.602 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 134,914 loops for a total of 2,698,280 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000006) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.000) milliseconds per 134,914 loops.
Total difference 17.48 milliseconds for 2,698,280 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, "urlencode()", was:

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

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

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

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