From:             rodricg at sellingsource dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.3.0RC2
PHP Bug Type:     Scripting Engine problem
Bug description:  __call performs extra allocs

Description:
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When returning a value from __call (as compared to a non-dynamic method)
extra memory is allocated.  This leads to performance degradation dependent
on the size of the returned value.  

Hopefully this is a better description/example of bug #47525.


Reproduce code:
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http://rodric.org/mem.phps

This script takes 3 arguments. ie.
mem.php <iterations> <method> <size>

See "Actual Result" for invocations.

Expected result:
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Bytes allocated when using __call should be similar to not using __call.

When using __call the time taken should not degrade linearly as the size
of the result value increases.

Actual result:
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Change USE_ZEND_ALLOC to 1 and you will see that "magic" performs exactly
<iterations> more allocs than "getStr".

Using __call:

USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind php -n -d memory_limit=1024M mem.php 100 magic
1000000 2>&1 | pcregrep "Time|allocs"
Time: 1.5781
==25158== malloc/free: 19,564 allocs, 18,033 frees, 104,476,083 bytes
allocated.

USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind php -n -d memory_limit=1024M mem.php 100 magic
2000000 2>&1 | pcregrep "Time|allocs"
Time: 3.1066
==25161== malloc/free: 19,564 allocs, 18,033 frees, 205,476,083 bytes
allocated.


Not Using __call:

USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind php -n -d memory_limit=1024M mem.php 100 getStr
1000000 2>&1 | pcregrep "Time|allocs"
Time: 0.0280
==25181== malloc/free: 18,764 allocs, 17,233 frees, 4,444,183 bytes
allocated.

USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind php -n -d memory_limit=1024M mem.php 100 getStr
2000000 2>&1 | pcregrep "Time|allocs"
Time: 0.0281
==25183== malloc/free: 18,764 allocs, 17,233 frees, 5,444,183 bytes
allocated.

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Fixed in CVS:                        
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Fixed in CVS and need be documented: 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    
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Need backtrace:                      
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Need Reproduce Script:               
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Try newer version:                   
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Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
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register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
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Install GNU Sed:                     
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Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
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MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48197&r=mysqlcfg

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