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kowach
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:59 pm    Post subject: micro optimization Reply with quote

While I was analyzing bunch of xdebug trace code I found that is_array($parent) in Smarty->createTemplate is very costly, in Smarty-3.1.21/libs/Smarty.class.php(1305)

I guess that is because $parent is large Smarty object and checking it is heavy.

When I changed comparation to $parent===(array)$parent, function is_array had goone from xdebug top functions.

As said on stackoverflow: Micro-optimisation is worth it when you have evidence that you're optimising a bottleneck.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3470990/is-micro-optimization-worth-the-time

Sou please include it in next release Smile
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U.Tews
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know how you could have seen is_array() in xdebug top functions. It's not costly.

1. It's execution time does not depend on the type of the variable, so the size of the smarty object does not matter.

2. The execution time on my system is just 6 usec , so it's one of the fastest function called.

3. If you replace it by $smarty === (array)$smarty ofcause you don't see it any longer in xdebug because it's not called anymore. But that does not mean that the $smarty === (array)$smarty needs not time. Tests on my system show that it does need about 4 usec. Okay it saves 1/3 of the exeution time of is_array().
But compared to the loading time of a page you may save a maximum of 0.01 % of execution time.

So I think you have missinterpreted some xdebug data.
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kowach
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used this script to get top functions by time:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derickr/xdebug/master/contrib/tracefile-analyser.php

I'v done multiple tests, again. While trace shows improvement of $smarty === (array)$smarty for few milliseconds, apache bench shows degradation. I guess that xdebug trace data is not relevant because it dumps lot of data which can alter the timings.

So I was wrong Sad
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