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PHPMailer::utf8CharBoundary( string $encodedText, int $maxLength ): int

Source
wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php:2782
Find the last character boundary prior to $maxLength in a utf-8 quoted-printable encoded string.

Description

Original written by Colin Brown.

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

$encodedTextstring
utf-8 QP text
$maxLengthint
Find the last character boundary prior to this length

Return value

int

Performance profile

How much work a call to PHPMailer::utf8CharBoundary() 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
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
7

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 42.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost PHPMailer::utf8CharBoundary() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always7none

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev4276
8.54276
8.442769 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3
8.35176
8.25176
8.15176
7.45176

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.

Source code

    public function utf8CharBoundary($encodedText, $maxLength)    {        $foundSplitPos = false;        $lookBack = 3;        while (!$foundSplitPos) {            $lastChunk = substr($encodedText, $maxLength - $lookBack, $lookBack);            $encodedCharPos = strpos($lastChunk, '=');            if (false !== $encodedCharPos) {                //Found start of encoded character byte within $lookBack block.                //Check the encoded byte value (the 2 chars after the '=')                $hex = substr($encodedText, $maxLength - $lookBack + $encodedCharPos + 1, 2);                $dec = hexdec($hex);                if ($dec < 128) {                    //Single byte character.                    //If the encoded char was found at pos 0, it will fit                    //otherwise reduce maxLength to start of the encoded char                    if ($encodedCharPos > 0) {                        $maxLength -= $lookBack - $encodedCharPos;                    }                    $foundSplitPos = true;                } elseif ($dec >= 192) {                    //First byte of a multi byte character                    //Reduce maxLength to split at start of character                    $maxLength -= $lookBack - $encodedCharPos;                    $foundSplitPos = true;                } elseif ($dec < 192) {                    //Middle byte of a multi byte character, look further back                    $lookBack += 3;                }            } else {                //No encoded character found                $foundSplitPos = true;            }        }         return $maxLength;    }

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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