Yeah, it does that sometimes. But over 1 million iterations a 0.2 second difference is negligible, and easily explained by random events in the environment (other processes on the box, etc.) It's the 25% difference I'm getting on just one box that is confusing the hell of of me. :-) On Thursday 18 October 2007, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > Larry, > > i havent dug into the code or the post much cause im coding away today, > but i did drop you test script on a box of mine and run it. for what its > worth, > heres the results: > > nathan@devel ~/working/www $ php testBench.php > Testing __call() > Native Method: 8.62859416008 seconds > Magic Method: 15.2616789341 seconds > Testing __call() with sub-function > Native Method: 8.45631313324 seconds > Magic Method: 31.9451780319 seconds > > the native method actually ran faster the second time.. > > -nathan -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
