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getid3_quicktime::MaybePascal2String( string $pascalstring ): string

Source
wp-includes/ID3/module.audio-video.quicktime.php:3100

Compatibility

WordPress
core
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$pascalstringstring

Return value

string

Performance profile

How much work a call to getid3_quicktime::MaybePascal2String() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
5–20

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 23.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost getid3_quicktime::MaybePascal2String() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always5none
always15–20ord()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev235–203
8.5235–203
8.4235–20312 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3
8.3355–293
8.2355–293
8.1355–293
7.4355–293

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Used by · 1

Source code

	public function MaybePascal2String($pascalstring) {		// Pascal strings have 1 unsigned byte at the beginning saying how many chars (1-255) are in the string		// Check if string actually is in this format or written incorrectly, straight string, or null-terminated string		if (strlen($pascalstring) > 0) {			if (ord(substr($pascalstring, 0, 1)) == (strlen($pascalstring) - 1)) {				return substr($pascalstring, 1);			} elseif (substr($pascalstring, -1, 1) == "\x00") {				// appears to be null-terminated instead of Pascal-style				return substr($pascalstring, 0, -1);			}		}		return $pascalstring;	}

Changelog

Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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