[TYPO3-core] RFC #0011512: replace while(list()...) by foreach in the TYPO3 core part 1

[Rupert Germann]

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Rupert Germann schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: performance improvement
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11512
> 
> Branches: Trunk
> 
> Problem:
> foreach() has proven[1] that it is way faster than while(list()=each()) and
> in current PHP versions foreach() even needs less memory than while().
> 
> Solution:
> replace while(list()=each()) with the appropriate foreach() statements in
> frontend classes
> (part 2 will take care of the rest)
> 
> 
> Info:
> the patch affects the following files:
> t3lib/class.t3lib_page.php
> t3lib/class.t3lib_tsparser.php
> typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_menu.php
> typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_pagegen.php
> typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php
> 
> 
> thats what I changed:
> 
> variant 1
> - reset($array);
> - while(list($k)=each($array)) {
> + foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
> 
> this leaves $v unused but in this way it is faster than while(list()...) or
> calling array_keys() before
> 
> variant 2
> - reset($loadDB->tableArray);
> - while(list($table,)=each($loadDB->tableArray)) {
> + foreach ($loadDB->tableArray as $table => $v) {
> 
> same as variant 1
> 
> 
> variant 3
> - reset($Hobjs);
> - while(list(,$index)=each($Hobjs)) {
> + foreach ($Hobjs as $index) {
> 
> 
> variant 4
> - reset($inArray);
> - while(list($fN,$fV)=each($inArray)) {
> + foreach ($inArray as $fN => $v) {
> 
> 
> in some cases I changed lines where very deep arrays were accessed during
> loops to use a local copy of this array instead.
> 
> 
> performance gain of this patch depends very much on your sites settings -
> will say: if you have a big menu the changes in class.tslib_menu will have
> much more impact than with a small one.
> 
> I tested it with a (uncached) page which displays 4 tt_news plugins calling
> cobj->getmarkerArrayCached() hundreds of times and I got a performance gain
> of 7-10% 
> The rendering speed of cached pages is not influenced by this patch.
> 
> greets
> rupert
> 
> "There shall be no new TYPO3 version delivering content slower than its
> predecessor!"
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-dev/2009-June/035735.html [^] 
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