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rest_are_values_equal( mixed $value1, mixed $value2 ): bool

Since
5.7.0
Source
wp-includes/rest-api.php:2105
Checks the equality of two values, following JSON Schema semantics.

Description

Property order is ignored for objects.

Values must have been previously sanitized/coerced to their native types.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.7.0
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

$value1mixed
The first value to check.
$value2mixed
The second value to check.

Return value

bool
True if the values are equal or false otherwise.

Performance profile

How much work a call to rest_are_values_equal() 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
6–13

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 45.

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 · 2 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
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Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 45 instructions, 6–13 executed per call, 8 branches. The work does not change between versions.

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 rest_are_values_equal( $value1, $value2 ) {	if ( is_array( $value1 ) && is_array( $value2 ) ) {		if ( count( $value1 ) !== count( $value2 ) ) {			return false;		} 		return array_all(			$value1,			fn( $value, $index ) => array_key_exists( $index, $value2 ) && rest_are_values_equal( $value, $value2[ $index ] )		);	} 	if ( is_int( $value1 ) && is_float( $value2 )		|| is_float( $value1 ) && is_int( $value2 )	) {		return (float) $value1 === (float) $value2;	} 	return $value1 === $value2;}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.7.0. 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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