#6525: Deprecate ife(), a(), am(), r(), up(), low(), and e()
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Reporter: michaelc | Type: Bug
Status: new | Priority: Low
Milestone: 1.3.x.x | Component: Core Libs
Version: 1.2 Final | Severity: Minor
Keywords: deprecate ife am a r up low echo e | Php_version: PHP 5
Cake_version: |
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These functions are inefficient and are already implemented at the
language level:[[BR]]
fe(), a(), am(), r(), up(), low(), and e()[[BR]]
[[BR]]
(All tests performed using a simple testing script, from the command line,
PHP 5.1.6 and at 1,000,000 iterations).[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{ife($i%2, '', '')}}} vs {{{$i%2?'':''}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 0.83274698257446 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.15461993217468 seconds to run.[[BR]]
(note also that the function is not quite the equivalent to the language
construct, as both options are evaluated in the case of the function -
compare "{{{$i = 0;echo ife(false,($i = $i+1),$i);}}}" with "{{{$i =
0;echo (false?($i = $i+1):$i);}}}". I regard the functionality of the ife
function as less useful.)[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{a(1,2,3,4,5)}}} vs {{{array(1,2,3,4,5)}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 0.90345978736877 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.45615005493164 seconds to run.[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{am(array(1,2,3,4,5), array())}}} vs {{{array_merge(array(1,2,3,4,5),
array())}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 5.5314269065857 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 1.2870719432831 seconds to run.[[BR]]
(note that these functions are not completely equivalent if you are
running PHP 5 - am() acts equivalent to the older PHP 4 function, and
silently converts non-array arguments for you)[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{r('','','')}}} vs {{{str_replace('','','')}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 1.1455109119415 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.46572494506836 seconds to run.[[BR]]
(also run with {{{'a', '', 'a'}}}, for purists)[[BR]]
Test 1 took 1.2162089347839 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.4943380355835 seconds to run.[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{up('')}}} vs {{{strtoupper('')}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 0.52809000015259 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.28283596038818 seconds to run.[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{low('')}}} vs {{{strtolower('')}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 0.53930997848511 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.27885103225708 seconds to run.[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{e('')}}} vs {{{echo('')}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 0.3783860206604 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 0.076194047927856 seconds to run.[[BR]]
[[BR]]
{{{aa()}}} is also suspect (most cases that I can think of should be using
array_combine to perform something like it), but as it has no single
function language level support at this time, I'll leave it be. It does,
however, remind me somewhat of an inverse of Intercal's mingle operator.
For completeness:[[BR]]
{{{aa(1,6,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,0)}}} vs {{{array_combine(array(1,2,3,4,5),
array(6,7,8,9,0))}}}[[BR]]
Test 1 took 4.6495821475983 seconds to run.[[BR]]
Test 2 took 1.4624469280243 seconds to run.[[BR]]
(both functions returned the same result)[[BR]]
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/6525>
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