http://snipplr.com/tags/strcmp Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:14:03 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/758/speed-test-strcmp-vs-/ strcmp with matching strings took 0.207852 seconds strcmp with non-matching strings took 0.215276 seconds === with matching strings took 0.067122 seconds === with non-matching strings took 0.057305 seconds === is the clear winner. Function calls are always slower than operators. This was with PHP5, may be different for earlier versions. Not sure about the memory impact but I assume it's less since the strings do not have to be copied for the function call.

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