Experiment: AMFPHP vs URLLoader

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if the AMF format would increase transfer speed of data, but my findings are the complete opposite.

My results are that AMFPHP averages:

AMFPHP:
Average = 233.33

Regular URLLoader:
Average = 223.78

Here is the quick test I wrote up to check.


package {
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.net.NetConnection;
	import flash.net.Responder;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.utils.getTimer;

	public class Test extends Sprite
	{
		private var responder:Responder;
		private var connection:NetConnection;
		private var startTime:int;
		private var total:int;
		private var timesRan:int;
		public function Test()
		{
			responder = new Responder(onResult,onFault);
			connection = new NetConnection();
			
			// Just comment one of the following out 
			connection.connect("URL GATEWAY WENT HERE"); sendData();
			//sendData2()
		}
		public function sendData2(e:Event =null):void
		{
			timesRan++;
			if (timesRan == 100)
			{
				done();
				return;
			}
			startTime = getTimer();
			var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
			urlLoader.load(new URLRequest("PHPPAGEA"));
			urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onResult2);
		}
		public function sendData(e:Event=null):void 
		{
			timesRan++;
			if (timesRan == 100)
			{
				done();
				return;
			}
			startTime = getTimer();
 			connection.call("HelloWorld.say", responder,"Test");
 		}
 		public function done(e:Event=null):void
 		{
 			trace("Average = "+(total/100));
 		}
		private function onResult(result:Object):void 
		{
			var endTime:int = getTimer()-startTime;
			total+=endTime;
			trace("Time taken = "+endTime);
			sendData();
		}
		 
		private function onResult2(result:Object):void 
		{
			var endTime:int = getTimer()-startTime;
			total+=endTime;
			trace("Time taken = "+endTime);
			sendData2();
		}
		 private function onFault(fault:Object):void 
		 {
		 	trace("Error: "+String(fault.description));
		 }

	}
}


Can anyone verify my code? Maybe I made a mistake?