ID:               6608
 Comment by:       benji at daystream dot com
 Reported By:      mledet at spirenet dot com
 Status:           Closed
 Bug Type:         Performance problem
 Operating System: Linux 2.2.16
 PHP Version:      4.0.2
 New Comment:

Here's more of the code, previous to the loops:

$sentence="I acn run to the store adn sing without knowing why."

$num=0;
$num++; $spell[$num]=Array(" acn "," can ");
$num++; $spell[$num]=Array(" adn "," and ");
// there are about 800 of these types of corrections. I expect you dont
want me to include them all.

My tests today show a difference of .18 seconds to 3.4 seconds. That's
about 20X slower. Better for some reason, but still not optimal by a
long shot.


Previous Comments:
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[2003-03-01 13:07:11] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I see about a 20% overhead in executing the two loops with 
a no-op inside the loop.  This amount of overhead is 
expected (due to the fact that your are making an extra 
function call on every iteration).  Nowhere near 5000%.  
Tested on OSX with this:

<?php
  for($i=0;$i < 100000; $i++) {
    $array[] = '1';
  }
  for($i=0; $i < sizeof($array); $i++) {
    
  }
?>

vs.

<?php
  for($i=0;$i < 100000; $i++) {
    $array[] = '1';
  }
  $end = sizeof($array);
  for($i=0; $i < $end; $i++) {
    
  }
?>

Your code fragment is not complete, so I cant actually 
repliate your test.

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[2003-03-01 12:50:59] benji at daystream dot com

Please reopen this issue. It still exists in version 4.3.0. I'm running
on OSX. The performance with a large array that uses sizeof() in a loop
is very poor. It's abut 50X slower than it should be.

The following takes 8-10 seconds:
for ($i=1;$i<=sizeof($spell);$i++) {
     $sentence=str_replace($spell[$i][0],$spell[$i][1],$sentence); 
}

Whereas the following takes only .18 seconds:
$end=sizeof($spell);
for ($i=1;$i<=$end;$i++) {
     $sentence=str_replace($spell[$i][0],$spell[$i][1],$sentence); 
}

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[2001-05-10 05:55:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No feedback. I problem exists with 4.0.5, reopen.


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[2001-04-10 10:12:23] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Could you please test your script with either the PHP 4.0.4pl1 release,
the latest PHP 4.0.5 RC or a current CVS snapshot from
http://snaps.php.net/? Thanks.


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[2000-09-07 13:01:24] mledet at spirenet dot com

The following code performed well under 3.0.16.
      for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($teacherarray); $i++) {
         $a=$teacher_array[$i];
         if ($a->teacher_id==$teacher_id) {
            break;
         }
      } 
However, under php 4.0.2 it is extrememly slow and causes cpu util for
the httpd process to hit 90%.  $teacherarray is not being modified
during the loop so the condition isn't changing.

BTW: Changing to the following code works ok.

      $numteachers = sizeof($teacherarray);
      for ($i=0; $i < $numteachers; $i++) {
         $a=$teacher_array[$i];
         if ($a->teacher_id==$teacher_id) {
            break;
         }
      } 

Either the sizeof function has had a serious decrease in its speed or
something is awry..


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