Skip string allocations

Author: dmsnell

src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php

@@ -179,19 +179,19 @@ public static function decode_attribute( $text, $at = 0, $length = null ) {
 	 * @return string Decoded string.
 	 */
 	public static function decode( $context, $text, $at = 0, $length = null ) {
-		$decoded = '';
-		$end     = isset( $length ) ? $at + $length : strlen( $text );
-		$was_at  = $at;
+		$decoded    = '';
+		$end        = isset( $length ) ? $at + $length : strlen( $text );
+		$started_at = $at;
+		$was_at     = $at;
 
 		while ( $at < $end ) {
-			$next_character_reference_at = strpos( $text, '&', $at );
-			if ( false === $next_character_reference_at ) {
-				break;
+			if ( '&' !== $text[ $at ] ) {
+				++$at;
+				continue;
 			}
 
-			$character_reference = self::read_character_reference( $context, $text, $next_character_reference_at, $skip_bytes );
+			$character_reference = self::read_character_reference( $context, $text, $at, $skip_bytes );
 			if ( isset( $character_reference ) ) {
-				$at       = $next_character_reference_at;
 				$decoded .= substr( $text, $was_at, $at - $was_at );
 				$decoded .= $character_reference;
 				$at      += $skip_bytes;
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ public static function decode( $context, $text, $at = 0, $length = null ) {
 			++$at;
 		}
 
-		if ( 0 === $was_at ) {
-			return $text;
+		if ( $started_at === $was_at ) {
+			return substr( $text, $started_at, $length );
 		}
 
 		if ( $was_at < $end ) {

src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php

@@ -2494,8 +2494,9 @@ private function get_enqueued_attribute_value( $comparable_name ) {
 		 *        2. Double-quoting starts one after the equals sign.
 		 *        3. Double-quoting ends at the last character in the update.
 		 */
-		$enqueued_value = substr( $enqueued_text, $equals_at + 2, -1 );
-		return WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_attribute( $enqueued_value );
+		$start_at = $equals_at + 2;
+		$end_at   = strlen( $enqueued_text ) - 1;
+		return WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_attribute( $enqueued_text, $start_at, $end_at - $start_at );
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -2566,9 +2567,7 @@ public function get_attribute( $name ) {
 			return true;
 		}
 
-		$raw_value = substr( $this->html, $attribute->value_starts_at, $attribute->value_length );
-
-		return WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_attribute( $raw_value );
+		return WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_attribute( $this->html, $attribute->value_starts_at, $attribute->value_length );
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -2841,16 +2840,14 @@ public function get_modifiable_text() {
 			return '';
 		}
 
-		$text = substr( $this->html, $this->text_starts_at, $this->text_length );
-
 		// Comment data is not decoded.
 		if (
 			self::STATE_CDATA_NODE === $this->parser_state ||
 			self::STATE_COMMENT === $this->parser_state ||
 			self::STATE_DOCTYPE === $this->parser_state ||
 			self::STATE_FUNKY_COMMENT === $this->parser_state
 		) {
-			return $text;
+			return substr( $this->html, $this->text_starts_at, $this->text_length );
 		}
 
 		$tag_name = $this->get_tag();
@@ -2865,10 +2862,10 @@ public function get_modifiable_text() {
 			'STYLE' === $tag_name ||
 			'XMP' === $tag_name
 		) {
-			return $text;
+			return substr( $this->html, $this->text_starts_at, $this->text_length );
 		}
 
-		$decoded = WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node( $text );
+		$decoded = WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node( $this->html, $this->text_starts_at, $this->text_length );
 
 		/*
 		 * TEXTAREA skips a leading newline, but this newline may appear not only as the