Speed of do while

[Marco]

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jon
05-Nov-2003 10:06
According to my tests, the "do...while " control structure actually seems to be ~40% faster than the "for" control structure. At least using PHP v4.0.6on a few fairly modern Linux machines. I used a the getmicrotime function as defined at http://www.php.net/microtime
I tested the following 5 scenarios, including two different ways of calling a "for" loop. The less ordinary way to call "for", I'll call "altfor".
Here >are the code scenarios for different ways from counting from
0->($num-1), in my case $num = 10000:
// 'altfor':
$a=0;
for (; $a<$num;) { $a++;} // 'for':
for ($a=0; $a<$num; $a++) {} // 'foreach':
foreach (range(0,$num-1) as $a ) {} // 'while':
$a = 0;
while ($a < $num) {$a++;} // 'do':
$a = 0;
do {} while (++$a < $num); Each scenario is called in random order, and here is a typical result: Average times for 100 iterations of each loop: altfor, do, for, foreach, while.All loops are incremented from 0 to 9999. altfor: 0.0368828332424 16 seconds, 138.25 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
do: 0.0266782820224 76 seconds, 100.00 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
for: 0.0373089981079 10 seconds, 139.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
foreach: 0.0648571395874 02 seconds, 243.11 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
while: 0.0365088176727 29 seconds, 136.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds

...so to be clear, I ran "for", et all, from 0->9999. This was done 100

times. Above are the average times for those 100 tests of loops of 10,000.
I >have run my script multiple time on several different Linux systems here
at my work. All w/ similar results...

As anyone tryed to see if thats true and do...while is about 40% faster than
for ?

[CountScubula]

Just curious, but put some real calculations or procedures within the loops,
perhaps read a file, process an array or combo therof.

The reason is, it might not be 40% faster, but rather a small time frame of
less overhead. run some calculations that take 1 second to run, and put that
in the loop 10 times, thus roughly 10 seconds, then you might see some loops
running at 9.8 or 10.1, but not 10 sec and 6 sec (40% faster)

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jon
05-Nov-2003 10:06
According to my tests, the "do...while " control structure actually seems to

be ~40% faster than the "for" control structure. At least using PHP v4.0.6on a few fairly modern Linux machines.

I used a the getmicrotime function as defined at

http://www.php.net/microtime

I tested the following 5 scenarios, including two different ways of

calling a "for" loop. The less ordinary way to call "for", I'll call "altfor".
Here >are the code scenarios for different ways from counting from
0->($num-1), in my case $num = 10000:

// 'altfor':
$a=0;
for (; $a<$num;) { $a++;}

// 'for':
for ($a=0; $a<$num; $a++) {}

// 'foreach':
foreach (range(0,$num-1) as $a ) {}

// 'while':
$a = 0;
while ($a < $num) {$a++;}

// 'do':
$a = 0;
do {} while (++$a < $num);

Each scenario is called in random order, and here is a typical result:

Average times for 100 iterations of each loop: altfor, do, for, foreach,

while.

All loops are incremented from 0 to 9999.

altfor: 0.0368828332424 16 seconds, 138.25 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
do: 0.0266782820224 76 seconds, 100.00 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
for: 0.0373089981079 10 seconds, 139.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
foreach: 0.0648571395874 02 seconds, 243.11 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
while: 0.0365088176727 29 seconds, 136.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds

...so to be clear, I ran "for", et all, from 0->9999. This was done 100

times. Above are the average times for those 100 tests of loops of

10,000. I >have run my script multiple time on several different Linux systems here at my work. All w/ similar results...

As anyone tryed to see if thats true and do...while is about 40% faster than for ?

[Chung Leong]

This has been the case since PHP3. Does it matter? Probably not.

Functions with longer names are also slower, in case you're wondering. Dito
for long variable names.

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jon
05-Nov-2003 10:06
According to my tests, the "do...while " control structure actually seems to

be ~40% faster than the "for" control structure. At least using PHP v4.0.6on a few fairly modern Linux machines.

I used a the getmicrotime function as defined at

http://www.php.net/microtime

I tested the following 5 scenarios, including two different ways of

calling a "for" loop. The less ordinary way to call "for", I'll call "altfor".
Here >are the code scenarios for different ways from counting from
0->($num-1), in my case $num = 10000:

// 'altfor':
$a=0;
for (; $a<$num;) { $a++;}

// 'for':
for ($a=0; $a<$num; $a++) {}

// 'foreach':
foreach (range(0,$num-1) as $a ) {}

// 'while':
$a = 0;
while ($a < $num) {$a++;}

// 'do':
$a = 0;
do {} while (++$a < $num);

Each scenario is called in random order, and here is a typical result:

Average times for 100 iterations of each loop: altfor, do, for, foreach,

while.

All loops are incremented from 0 to 9999.

altfor: 0.0368828332424 16 seconds, 138.25 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
do: 0.0266782820224 76 seconds, 100.00 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
for: 0.0373089981079 10 seconds, 139.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
foreach: 0.0648571395874 02 seconds, 243.11 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds
while: 0.0365088176727 29 seconds, 136.85 percent of ~ 0.0267 seconds

...so to be clear, I ran "for", et all, from 0->9999. This was done 100

times. Above are the average times for those 100 tests of loops of

10,000. I >have run my script multiple time on several different Linux systems here at my work. All w/ similar results...

As anyone tryed to see if thats true and do...while is about 40% faster than for ?