Test: urlencode vs. urldecode

What is faster, encoding or decoding a URL?

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "urldecode()" was the faster by 0.0114 seconds, (1.999% faster)

urldecode() 100%

urlencode() 98.001%

The urldecode() test took 0.5578 seconds.
The urlencode() test took 0.5692 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 135,343 loops for a total of 2,706,860 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000004) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.569) milliseconds per 135,343 loops.
Total difference 11.38 milliseconds for 2,706,860 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (5.4832) milliseconds and Code 2 was (4.0085) 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, "urldecode()", was:

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

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