Description:
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I'm running into an issue with APC (unnecessarily?) caching a copy of the current values of inherited static variables when caching opcodes for a derived class.  This causes exceessive memory use, both in the APC cache itself, and by the scripts which are later loaded from cache.  (In the scenario I'm troubleshooting, there is a widely-used base class which keeps up to ~1MB of data in a static array, so the memory usage issue is particularly severe, because that 1MB gets multiplied many times.)

The cause seems to be copying around the entire 'default_static_members_table' of the class.  Would it be possible/safe to exclude copying array slots of inherited static members, and copy only those members which belong to the derived class itself?


Test script:
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<?php /* 1.php */
if (isset($_GET['clear'])) { echo "Clearing opcode cache.\n"; apc_clear_cache('system'); exit; }
class A { public static $var; }
if (isset($_GET['bytes'])) A::$var = str_repeat('x', (int) $_GET['bytes']);
$usage0 = memory_get_usage();
echo "Memory usage before including subclasses: ", ($usage0 = memory_get_usage()), "\n";
require_once("2.php");
$diff = ($usage = memory_get_usage()) - $usage0;
echo "Memory usage after including subclasses: $usage (difference: $diff)\n";
?>

<?php /* 2.php */
class B1 extends A { } class B2 extends A { } class B3 extends A { } class B4 extends A { }
class B5 extends A { } class B6 extends A { } class B7 extends A { } class B8 extends A { }
?>


Expected result:
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The change in memory usage before/after including the derived classes file (2.php) should be small.

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?clear
Clearing opcode cache.

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?bytes=5444333
Memory usage before including subclasses: 5684416
Memory usage after including subclasses: 5692224 (difference: 7808)

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?bytes=1
Memory usage before including subclasses: 232696
Memory usage after including subclasses: 242024 (difference: 9328)
                                         ^^^^^^              ^^^^


Actual result:
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The change in memory usage is large, because APC is storing a copy of the str_repeat with each cached derived class.

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?clear
Clearing opcode cache.

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?bytes=5444333
Memory usage before including subclasses: 5684032
Memory usage after including subclasses: 5691840 (difference: 7808)

$ curl http://$HOSTNAME/1.php?bytes=1
Memory usage before including subclasses: 233080
Memory usage after including subclasses: 43796968 (difference: 43563888)
                                         ^^^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^