Merge two flat indexed arrays of equal size so that values are pushed into the result in an alternating fashion

by 
$count = count($a1);
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
    $newArray[] = $a1[$i];
    $newArray[] = $b1[$i];
}

My work here is done.

$a1 = array(0,1,2);
$a2 = array(3,4,5);

$start = microtime(TRUE);

for($t = 0; $t < 100000; $t++)
{
    $newArray = array();
    $count = count($a1);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++)
    {
        $newArray[] = $a1[$i];
        $newArray[] = $a2[$i];
    }
}
echo  round(microtime(TRUE) - $start, 2); # 0.6

$a1 = array(0,1,2);
$a2 = array(3,4,5);

$start = microtime(TRUE);

for($t = 0; $t < 100000; $t++)
{
    $newArray = array();
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($a1); $i++)
    {
        $newArray[] = $a1[$i];
        $newArray[] = $a2[$i];
    }
}
echo  round(microtime(TRUE) - $start, 2); # 0.85

So pre-counting array size will be ~1/4 [citation needed] (on freakin’ 100.000 iterations you will gain 0.2 in total) faster. If you put count() inside loop, it will recount on every iteration. 1/4 seems to me a reasonably faster. If you are looking for compiled function, you can stop.

P.S. Benchmark is like bikini, it shows you everything, and nothing.

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