Normal attribute access vs. magic __get

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Without Magic:

Server Software:        Apache/2.2.10
Server Hostname:        trailspace.local
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /member/album_test
Document Length:        287 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   85.387 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      478000 bytes
HTML transferred:       287000 bytes
Requests per second:    11.71 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       85.387 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       85.387 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          5.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       46   85  12.8     84     162
Processing:     0    0   1.5      0      17
Waiting:        0    0   1.4      0      14
Total:         46   85  12.9     84     163

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     84
  66%     86
  75%     88
  80%     89
  90%     95
  95%    108
  98%    129
  99%    139
 100%    163 (longest request)


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With Magic:

Server Software:        Apache/2.2.10
Server Hostname:        trailspace.local
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /member/album_test
Document Length:        287 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   88.176 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      478000 bytes
HTML transferred:       287000 bytes
Requests per second:    11.34 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       88.176 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       88.176 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          5.29 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       56   88  11.6     86     224
Processing:     0    0   1.8      0      16
Waiting:        0    0   1.8      0      16
Total:         56   88  11.7     87     239

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     87
  66%     89
  75%     90
  80%     91
  90%     95
  95%    101
  98%    121
  99%    132
 100%    239 (longest request)