Add zend_object_alloc() API

Using ecalloc() to create objects is expensive, because the
dynamic-size memset() is unreasonably slow. Make sure we only
zero the main object structure with known size, as the properties
are intialized separately anyway.

Technically we do not need to zero the embedded zend_object
structure either, but as long as the memset argument is constant,
a couple more bytes don't really matter.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Zend/zend_objects_API.h b/Zend/zend_objects_API.h
index c21d1a3b0a..cffd9ee273 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_objects_API.h
+++ b/Zend/zend_objects_API.h
@@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ static zend_always_inline size_t zend_object_properties_size(zend_class_entry *c
 			((ce->ce_flags & ZEND_ACC_USE_GUARDS) ? 0 : 1));
 }
 
+/* Allocates object type and zeros it, but not the properties.
+ * Properties MUST be initialized using object_properties_init(). */
+static zend_always_inline void *zend_object_alloc(size_t obj_size, zend_class_entry *ce) {
+	void *obj = emalloc(obj_size + zend_object_properties_size(ce));
+	memset(obj, 0, obj_size);
+	return obj;
+}
+
+
 #endif /* ZEND_OBJECTS_H */
 
 /*