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Without further ado, I will share with you the timeit function I wrote. The specific content is as follows:
/** * Compute the delay to execute a function a number of time * @param $count Number of time that the tests will execute the given function * @param $function the function to test. Can be a string with parameters (ex: 'myfunc(123, 0, 342)') or a callback * @return float Duration in seconds (as a float) */ function timeit($count, $function) { if ($count <= 0){ echo "Error: count have to be more than zero"; return -1; } $nbargs = func_num_args(); if ($nbargs < 2) { echo 'Error: No Funciton!'; echo 'Usage:'; echo "\ttimeit(count, 'function(param)')"; echo "\te.g:timeit(100, 'function(0,2)')"; return -1; // no function to time } // Generate callback $func = func_get_arg(1); $func_name = current(explode('(', $func)); if (!function_exists($func_name)) { echo 'Error: Unknown Function'; return -1; // can't test unknown function } $str_cmd = ''; $str_cmd .= '$start = microtime(true);'; $str_cmd .= 'for($i=0; $i<'.$count.'; $i++) '.$func.';'; $str_cmd .= '$end = microtime(true);'; $str_cmd .= 'return ($end - $start);'; return eval($str_cmd); }
Test the execution time of a root-finding algorithm you wrote and the system’s built-in root-finding function, as follows:
//取平方根 function sqrt_nd($num){ $value = $num; while(abs($value*$value -$num) > 0.001){ $value = ($value + $num/$value)/2; } return $value; } print timeit(1000, 'sqrt_nd(5)'); print "\n"; print timeit(1000, 'sqrt(5)');
The test results are as follows:
0.028280019760132
0.0041000843048096
It can be seen that the built-in root function is more than 6 times faster than the custom root function~~
The method used to detect function execution time in php
The microtime() function in PHP can achieve this
The microtime() function returns the current Unix timestamp and microseconds.
microtime(get_as_float)
Parameter description
get_as_float If the get_as_float parameter is given and its value is equivalent to TRUE, this function returns a floating point number.
This function is only available under operating systems that support the gettimeofday() system call.
For example:
<?php $start_time = microtime(true); for($i=1;$i<=1000;$i++){ echo $i.'<br>'; } $end_time = microtime(true);
echo 'The loop execution time is: '.($end_time-$start_time).' s';
?>