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WP_Comments_List_Table::column_date( WP_Comment $comment )

Source
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php:1040

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

$commentWP_Comment
The comment object.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_Comments_List_Table::column_date() 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
Moderate

Reads stored settings via get_option(), cached per request but not free on a cold cache.

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
33–46

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 47.

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 it touches

  • optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below WP_Comments_List_Table::column_date()
  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()one call below WP_Comments_List_Table::column_date()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize, query and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.

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 WP_Comments_List_Table::column_date() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always33–35__(), __(), get_comment_date(), __(), get_comment_date(), sprintf(), wp_get_comment_status()
!empty($comment)46__(), __(), get_comment_date(), __(), get_comment_date(), sprintf(), wp_get_comment_status(), get_comment_link(), esc_url(), printf()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev4833–4721 more instruction than PHP 8.5
8.54733–462
8.44733–462
8.34733–462
8.24733–462
8.14733–462
7.44733–462

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 · 5

Source code

	public function column_date( $comment ) {		$submitted = sprintf(			/* translators: 1: Comment date, 2: Comment time. */			__( '%1$s at %2$s' ),			/* translators: Comment date format. See https://www.php.net/manual/datetime.format.php */			get_comment_date( __( 'Y/m/d' ), $comment ),			/* translators: Comment time format. See https://www.php.net/manual/datetime.format.php */			get_comment_date( __( 'g:i a' ), $comment )		); 		echo '<div class="submitted-on">'; 		if ( 'approved' === wp_get_comment_status( $comment ) && ! empty( $comment->comment_post_ID ) ) {			printf(				'<a href="%s">%s</a>',				esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment ) ),				$submitted			);		} else {			echo $submitted;		} 		echo '</div>';	}

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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