Topic: Some test results (PHP OOP vs Procedural vs "Nothing")
I was browsing the web to find out the efficiency of OOP vs Procedural in PHP and came across this test. It seemed to be missing some extra tests, soes here's my results (P4 2.8G Hyper-Threading, 2x512 Duel Channel RAM, PHP v5.1.6).
test.php:
<?php
define('REPEAT', 10000000);
define('REPEAT_DIV_10', 1000000);
class test
{
function one()
{
return 1;
}
}
function one()
{
return 1;
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT; $i++)
{
$testclass=new test();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
$testclass=new test();
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT; $i++)
{
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT; $i++)
{
$cnt+=one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT; $i++)
{
$cnt+=1;
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT_DIV_10; $i++)
{
$testclass=new test();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
$testclass=new test();
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT_DIV_10; $i++)
{
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
$cnt+=$testclass->one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT_DIV_10; $i++)
{
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
$cnt+=one();
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0; $i<REPEAT_DIV_10; $i++)
{
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
$cnt+=1;
}
$results[] = time()."\n";
for ($i=0;$i+1<sizeof($results);$i++)
{
echo "Results ($i):\t".($results[$i+1] - $results[$i])."\n";
} $ php ./temp.php
Results (0): 18
Results (1): 9
Results (2): 8
Results (3): 4
Results (4): 7
Results (5): 6
Results (6): 5
Results (7): 1
$ php ./temp.php
Results (0): 18
Results (1): 9
Results (2): 9
Results (3): 4
Results (4): 7
Results (5): 6
Results (6): 5
Results (7): 1
$ php ./temp.php
Results (0): 17
Results (1): 9
Results (2): 8
Results (3): 4
Results (4): 7
Results (5): 6
Results (6): 5
Results (7): 0
$ php ./temp.php
Results (0): 17
Results (1): 9
Results (2): 8
Results (3): 4
Results (4): 7
Results (5): 6
Results (6): 5
Results (7): 1
$ php ./temp.php
Results (0): 17
Results (1): 9
Results (2): 8
Results (3): 4
Results (4): 7
Results (5): 6
Results (6): 5
Results (7): 1Result 0 is creating an object each time the function is called. Rightly so, it's terribly slow.
Result 1 is creating an object once, and then calling a function each loop. It's usually about 1 second slower then Result 2. I'm guessing that's the overhead on calling an object's function (not 1 second, but probably around 1 / RESULT seconds per call). This is not the overhead of creating an object the first time since the object was created the first time in Result 0 (also, just to make sure this "first time" creation didn't affect Result 0, I commented out everything but the Result 0 code, then 1, etc... and got the same times).
Result 2 is calling a function each loop. a touch faster then using the object, but does not seem significant.
Result 3 is not making any calls. About 2x faster then using functions, but also much harder to read/maintain (in medium/large projects).
Result 4 is creating an object every 10 function calls. It calls the function the exact same amount of times as Result 0 (or 1 or 2 or 5 or 6 for that matter 
), but creates the object 10 times less often. Comparing these results to 0 through 3 it would seem that the for loop has it's own overhead. It would also seem that object creation has significant overhead when done often.
Result 5 is creating an object once, and calling the function the same amount as results 1 (or 0 or 2 or 4 or 6 for that matter ). Again we see about 1 second overhead when calling an objects function.
Result 6, same amount of function calls, just done with less loops.
Result 7... OMG... if only we didn't need to call functions, eh? from 5 seconds to 0! Course you'd have to leave out loops too (Result 3, doing the addition once per loop was 4 seconds). Be interesting to see a php "compiler" that just parsed out function calls and loops at the cost of file size.
Conclusions: It's not that costly to use a few "Global objects" that are only created once each page hit, and are used in a few places in that pages code. Any objects that need to be re-created often will probably start showing their cost, and could be optimized by using procedural function calls instead (or using a single object to do the job of the multi-creation object class). If your worried about the 1 second overhead (or less/more? php's time() probably isn't the best score card ), then you should also be worried about the overhead of loops and function calls. Result 3 vs Result 7 was only 10 times less loops, but was 4 times faster in the second set. Note to self: Write a script to parse out functions, classes, and loops, then spit out unintelligible non-OOP, non-procedural php, from an intelligible php source 
Hope this helps yous in some way, I learnt something... I think... 0.o
