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 0.0109 seconds, (1.064% faster)

urldecode() 100%

urlencode() 98.936%

The urldecode() test took 1.016 seconds.
The urlencode() test took 1.0269 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 280,649 loops for a total of 5,612,980 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.546) milliseconds per 280,649 loops.
Total difference 10.93 milliseconds for 5,612,980 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (2.1593) milliseconds and Code 2 was (1.5635) 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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