perf: Improve performance of Box::collectRemainingFiles()#1560
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The `->notPath()` filter of Symfony Finder is either accepting a “literal path” or a regular expression and converts each literal path to a regular expression and then filters the file stream by applying each regex individually. This leads to O(bufferedFileNames^2) calls to `preg_match()`, well over 20 million for PHPStan. Fix this by performing a simple `in_array()` check on the buffered files. This brings down the time to compile PHPStan from 2:35 to 0:25 on my machine. I have verified that the resulting PHPStan Phar hash is identical before and after this change. Fixes #1551.
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Wow I didn't realise that, awesome, thanks! |
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Wild. Appreciate this, Tim. @theofidry, you still keen to keep this one behind a feature flag now we have this improvement in place? I don't mind either way but happy to remove the need for the flag if we feel this is now in a better spot. |
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If we're confident the perf impact is <10-20% I'm fine with making it the default and making the existing flag a noop option. Actually this could already be assessed without any other changes. We know have a few projects for which we know the impact was quite big and for which we can compare the build with and without the flag. |
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->notPath()filter of Symfony Finder is either accepting a “literal path” or a regular expression and converts each literal path to a regular expression and then filters the file stream by applying each regex individually. This leads to O(bufferedFileNames^2) calls topreg_match(), well over 20 million for PHPStan.Fix this by performing a simple
in_array()check on the buffered files. This brings down the time to compile PHPStan from 2:35 to 0:25 on my machine.I have verified that the resulting PHPStan Phar hash is identical before and after this change.
Fixes #1551.
Tideways Comparison showing the improvement: https://app.tideways.io/share/trace/55089586-d71b-4fe5-a00a-08482ad2df06/compare/3abe5b8b-a960-4c0a-9c43-437a3dc23630/callgraph (link valid for 1 month, screenshot for posterity).