ID:               34700
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      six at aegis-corp dot org
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Suspended
 Bug Type:         Date/time related
 Operating System: linux 2.4
 PHP Version:      5.1.0RC1
 New Comment:

Right, the timezone lookup is currently slower.  There needs to be a
cache layer in front of it.  It will come eventually.  We know about
it.


Previous Comments:
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[2005-10-01 19:11:16] six at aegis-corp dot org

sniper: the latest cvs exhibits the same problem.

rasmus: $_SERVER["REQUEST_TIME"] is a nice addition, but in my case I
just want to convert timestamps stored in a db to a readable format,
hence no need for the current time at all ...

the following patch address the unneeded call to time(NULL), strace
confirms it, but the performance is still not on par with 5.0

--- php5-200510011430/ext/date/php_date.c.orig  2005-10-01
18:16:55.000000000 +0200
+++ php5-200510011430/ext/date/php_date.c       2005-10-01
18:17:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -479,11 +479,23 @@
 {
        char *format;
        int   format_len;
-       time_t  ts = time(NULL);
+       time_t  ts;
        char           *string;
 
-       if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "s|l",
&format, &format_len, &ts) == FAILURE) {
-               RETURN_FALSE;
+       switch (ZEND_NUM_ARGS()) {
+       case 2:
+               if (zend_parse_parameters(2 TSRMLS_CC, "sl", &format,
&format_len, &ts) == FAILURE) {
+                       RETURN_FALSE;
+               }
+               break;
+       case 1:
+               if (zend_parse_parameters(1 TSRMLS_CC, "s", &format,
&format_len) == FAILURE) {
+                       RETURN_FALSE;
+               }
+               ts = time(NULL);
+               break;
+       default:
+               WRONG_PARAM_COUNT;
        }
 
        string = php_format_date(format, format_len, ts, localtime
TSRMLS_CC);

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[2005-10-01 17:13:34] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

One of the new things in PHP 5.1 is the $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']
variable that gets set to the request time.  When running under Apache
this comes directly from the time syscall Apache makes for every
request, so by using this you can actually eliminate any time-related
syscalls at the PHP level and still do time stuff in a PHP script.  But
yes, it looks like there are a few things that can be cleaned up here.

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[2005-10-01 17:05:36] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip



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[2005-10-01 16:07:27] six at aegis-corp dot org

Description:
------------
performance of the date() function has taken a huge hit between PHP 5.0
and 5.1. i believe this is because of an unneeded syscall when a second
argument is given.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?

for ($a = 0; $a < 100000; $a++) date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $a);

?>

Expected result:
----------------
time /usr/local/bin/php-cli-5.0.4 datetest.php    
real 0m2.022s
user 0m1.910s
sys  0m0.000s

Actual result:
--------------
time /usr/local/bin/php-cli-5.1.0RC1 datetest.php 
real 0m10.001s
user 0m8.120s
sys  0m0.130s

5.1.0 takes more than 4x the time to complete than 5.0.4

with an strace, I can see that 5.1.0RC1 makes one (probably unneeded)
time() syscall per call to date(), which 5.0.4 does not


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