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Bug #37563 array_key_exists performance is poor for &$array
Submitted: 2006-05-23 17:16 UTC Modified: 2006-05-25 22:39 UTC
From: bugs dot php dot net at nanonanonano dot net Assigned: ilia (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Performance problem
PHP Version: 5CVS-2006-05-23 (snap) OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-05-23 17:16 UTC] bugs dot php dot net at nanonanonano dot net 
Description:
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If there is a reference taken to an array ($b =& $a) then the performance of array_key_exists($foo, $a) drops off enormously unless array_key_exists($foo, &$a) is used.

(Note this is identical to #30295 which is marked as fixed in CVS but doesn't appear to be fixed at all: it is found in both 4CVS and 5CVS)

Reproduce code:
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Based on the code in bug #30295:

    http://pastebin.com/733286

Expected result:
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Time for the following operations should be approximately the same:

array_key_exists($i, $a);

$b =& $a; array_key_exists($i, $a);

$b =& $a; array_key_exists($i, &$a);

Actual result:
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Time for 

$b =& $a; array_key_exists($i, $a);

is significantly greater than for the others.

Sample times from running the reproduce code:

Test with no refs:                    0.0012528896331787
Test with a ref to the array:         0.78344106674194
Test with a ref to the array and pass by ref: 0.0019340515136719

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 [2006-05-24 20:07 UTC] [email protected] 
Ilia, could you plz have a look at it?
 [2006-05-24 23:14 UTC] [email protected] 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2006-05-25 10:15 UTC] bugs dot php dot net at nanonanonano dot net 
Thanks for the prompt attention.

Just one last thing -- the fix only went into 5CVS and as noted in the original bug report the problem exists in 4CVS too. Any chance of backporting the fix?


# test with 4CVS (php4-STABLE-200605250830)
Test with no refs:                            0.0027539730072021
Test with a ref to the array:                 0.89111185073853
Test with a ref to the array and pass by ref: 0.0028078556060791

Thanks in advance!
 [2006-05-25 22:39 UTC] [email protected] 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

it cannot be back ported to PHP4 as the fix relies on PHP 5 
only code.
 
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