PHP Benchmarks

Performance comparison of PHP code alternatives.

Test: sha1 short vs. long

The short string one is 26 characters, the long is 40 times as long (just over 1k.)

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "short" was the faster by 0.0138 seconds, (1.371% faster)

short 100%
long 98.629%

The short test took 0.9943 seconds.
The long test took 1.0081 seconds.


Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 261,368 loops for a total of 5,227,360 runs.

  • Line execution difference (0.000003) milliseconds.
  • Avg difference (0.691) milliseconds per 261,368 loops.
  • Total difference 13.82 milliseconds for 5,227,360 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (3.3123) milliseconds and Code 2 was (2.2323) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.


The first test, "short", was:

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = sha1($GLOBALS['dummy_short']);

The second test, "long", was:

$GLOBALS['dummy2'] = sha1($GLOBALS['dummy_long']);

Running: Linux (x86_64:1 GB) PHP (