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Source   Test Once   Encoding text data with base64 and utf8_encode
base64 x 3.07 faster 0.0509utf8_encode 0.1563
Source   Test Once   Encoding binary data with base64 and utf8_encode
base64 x 5.30 faster 0.1240utf8_encode 0.6575
Source   Test Once   Encoding binary data with base64 and rawurlencode
base64 x 4.73 faster 0.1259rawurlencode 0.5958

Source   Test Once   Comparing checksums with crc32 and md5
crc32 x 7.78 faster 0.0009 md5 0.0070

Source   Test Once   Reading a binary file
fopen-fread-fclose x 1.15 faster 0.4350 file_get_contents 0.5018
Source   Test Once   Testing parse_ini_file vs assoc arrays (see http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=154126)
parse_ini_file x 1.14 faster 0.4139assoc 0.4735

Testing PHP 5.0.0RC2 Completed on WINNT. Benchmark done on: 03-May-2004 18:17:10

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