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Text_Diff_Engine_native::_compareseq( $xoff, $xlim, $yoff, $ylim )

Source
wp-includes/Text/Diff/Engine/native.php:281
Finds LCS of two sequences.

Description

The results are recorded in the vectors $this->{x,y}changed[], by storing a 1 in the element for each line that is an insertion or deletion (ie. is not in the LCS).

The subsequence of file 0 is (XOFF, XLIM) and likewise for file 1.

Note that XLIM, YLIM are exclusive bounds. All line numbers are origin-0 and discarded lines are not counted.

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

$xoff
$xlim
$yoff
$ylim

Performance profile

How much work a call to Text_Diff_Engine_native::_compareseq() 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
Light

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Scales with input

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

Instructions
22–63

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 99.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
2

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

What one call costs · 4 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!$xoff && $lcs == 0 && !$yoff22–43none
$lcs != 026–47reset(), next()
!$xoff && $xoff != false && $yoff != false && $lcs == 0 && !$yoff40–59min(), ->_diag()
$xoff != false && $yoff != false && $lcs != 044–63min(), ->_diag(), reset(), next()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev9922–6312
8.59922–6312
8.49922–6312
8.39922–6312
8.29922–63121 more instruction than PHP 8.1
8.19820–72123 fewer instructions than PHP 7.4
7.410120–8212

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.

Uses · 2

Used by · 2

Source code

    function _compareseq ($xoff, $xlim, $yoff, $ylim)    {        /* Slide down the bottom initial diagonal. */        while ($xoff < $xlim && $yoff < $ylim               && $this->xv[$xoff] == $this->yv[$yoff]) {            ++$xoff;            ++$yoff;        }         /* Slide up the top initial diagonal. */        while ($xlim > $xoff && $ylim > $yoff               && $this->xv[$xlim - 1] == $this->yv[$ylim - 1]) {            --$xlim;            --$ylim;        }         if ($xoff == $xlim || $yoff == $ylim) {            $lcs = 0;        } else {            /* This is ad hoc but seems to work well.  $nchunks =             * sqrt(min($xlim - $xoff, $ylim - $yoff) / 2.5); $nchunks =             * max(2,min(8,(int)$nchunks)); */            $nchunks = min(7, $xlim - $xoff, $ylim - $yoff) + 1;            list($lcs, $seps)                = $this->_diag($xoff, $xlim, $yoff, $ylim, $nchunks);        }         if ($lcs == 0) {            /* X and Y sequences have no common subsequence: mark all             * changed. */            while ($yoff < $ylim) {                $this->ychanged[$this->yind[$yoff++]] = 1;            }            while ($xoff < $xlim) {                $this->xchanged[$this->xind[$xoff++]] = 1;            }        } else {            /* Use the partitions to split this problem into subproblems. */            reset($seps);            $pt1 = $seps[0];            while ($pt2 = next($seps)) {                $this->_compareseq ($pt1[0], $pt2[0], $pt1[1], $pt2[1]);                $pt1 = $pt2;            }        }    }

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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