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So far all the functions have been running fast anyway so the difference haven’t been that significant but things are starting to get interesting with the run time jumping to 20-24 microseconds to write a short string to a file.

fwrite vs fputs
fwrite: 24.9826359749 seconds
fputs: 20.1990799904 seconds
Time saved: 4.7835559845 seconds; 23.6820488199%

With a difference of over 4 microseconds you could run both fputs and floatval in the time it takes to run fwrite. The difference is over 23% which clearly makes fputs the better function. It’s shorter as well.

Tidying up a string breaks the pattern. Maybe my analysis was a little premature.

chop vs rtrim
chop: 4.73731994629 seconds
rtrim: 4.41647195816 seconds
Time saved: 0.320847988129 seconds; 7.26480301852%

rtrim is a little faster and these functions take longer at a little over 4 microseconds.

Next it is time to try some validation with is_int and is_integer.

is_int vs is_integer
is_int: 3.11394786835 seconds
is_integer: 3.42630600929 seconds
Time saved: 0.312358140945 seconds; 9.11646946006%

The difference is smaller this time but again both functions are executing in a little over 3 microseconds. is_int is faster than is_integer so again the shorter function name wins. Is this going to be a pattern?