{"id":23836,"date":"2022-11-28T15:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-benchmark-code-to-see-which-runs-faster\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:25:46","slug":"solved-how-to-benchmark-code-to-see-which-runs-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-benchmark-code-to-see-which-runs-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to benchmark code to see which runs faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-50527845\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"50527845\" data-parentid=\"50526182\" data-score=\"2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>To benchmark code, you can use <code>microtime()<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.microtime.php\">http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.microtime.php<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;?php\n\necho 'modify: ';\n$time = microtime(1);\nfor ($x = 0; $x &lt; 10000; $x++) {\n    $datetime = new DateTime('2013-01-29');\n    $datetime-&gt;modify('+1 day');\n}\necho $datetime-&gt;format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); \n$end = microtime(1);\n$time = $end - $time;\necho $time . \"\\n\";\n\necho 'interval: ';\n$time = microtime(1);\nfor ($x = 0; $x &lt; 10000; $x++) {\n    $datetime = new DateTime('2013-01-29');\n    $datetime-&gt;add(new DateInterval('P1D'));\n}\n$end = microtime(1);\n$time = $end - $time;\necho $time . \"\\n\";\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This outputs :<\/p>\n<pre><code>modify: 0.039623975753784 \ninterval: 0.036103963851929\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>As you can see, after performing the calculation 10,000 times on each, DateInterval is the faster code. However, this is what I would call a microoptimisation! There isn&#8217;t much difference!<\/p>\n<p>See it working here <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/3v4l.org\/pCecn\">https:\/\/3v4l.org\/pCecn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to benchmark code to see which runs faster <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] To benchmark code, you can use microtime() http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.microtime.php &lt;?php echo &#8216;modify: &#8216;; $time = microtime(1); for ($x = 0; $x &lt; 10000; $x++) { $datetime = new DateTime(&#8216;2013-01-29&#8217;); $datetime-&gt;modify(&#8216;+1 day&#8217;); } echo $datetime-&gt;format(&#8216;Y-m-d H:i:s&#8217;); $end = microtime(1); $time = $end &#8211; $time; echo $time . &#8220;\\n&#8221;; echo &#8216;interval: &#8216;; $time = microtime(1); for ($x &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] How to benchmark code to see which runs faster\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-benchmark-code-to-see-which-runs-faster\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] How to benchmark code to see which runs faster\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[5099,783,339],"class_list":["post-23836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-dateinterval","tag-datetime","tag-php"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] How to benchmark code to see which runs faster - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-benchmark-code-to-see-which-runs-faster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] How to benchmark code to see which runs faster - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] To benchmark code, you can use microtime() http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.microtime.php &lt;?php echo &#039;modify: &#039;; $time = microtime(1); for ($x = 0; $x &lt; 10000; $x++) { $datetime = new DateTime(&#039;2013-01-29&#039;); $datetime-&gt;modify(&#039;+1 day&#039;); } echo $datetime-&gt;format(&#039;Y-m-d H:i:s&#039;); $end = microtime(1); $time = $end - $time; echo $time . &quot;n&quot;; echo &#039;interval: &#039;; $time = microtime(1); for ($x ... 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