In a PHP foreach, which is faster, negating condition or continuing?

Question

Consider the following code:

foreach ($products as $product) {
    if (some_long_condition()) {
        continue;
    } 
    do_stuff();

Which would be faster, having a condition with a continue, or negating the condition itself? Is there a difference at all in terms of performance, or is it just syntactic sugar?

Bench. Mark. It. The actual performance may depend on the specifics of your situation. — deceze, Jul 18 '17 at 08:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '17 at 08:57

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This is exactly the same, a boolean comparison. The compiler doesn't make a difference here.

answered Jul 18 '17 at 08:57

Daniel

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In a PHP foreach, which is faster, negating condition or continuing?

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