[JanJakes]

Summary

The WordPress PHPUnit job takes about 10 minutes, and most of that time is PHPUnit itself. This PR speeds it up with two small changes that only affect the tests:

• Turn off PHP's garbage collector for PHPUnit. While tests run, PHP keeps searching a large amount of memory for objects it can free, and it rarely finds much. In a short-lived test process, this isn't worth the time.
• Use the low bcrypt cost in class fixtures too. WP_UnitTestCase::set_up() lowers the bcrypt cost for each test, but wpSetUpBeforeClass() runs before it. Users created there still hash passwords at PHP's default cost, and those hashes took most of the time spent in class fixtures.

Test order and the list of expected failures stay unchanged.

Memory use goes up. A full WordPress PHPUnit run now peaks at about 4.2 GB instead of about 0.5 GB. This fits the 16 GB CI runner, but a local Docker setup needs that much memory available for a full run. The WordPress test bootstrap already removes the PHP memory limit, so no new limit setting is needed. The SQLite plugin suites use the same command and use very little memory either way.

The bcrypt issue is in WordPress's own test code, so it could also be fixed there. Until then, wp-setup.sh adds the filter, as it already does for other test changes.

Why

PHPUnit takes about 7.5 minutes of the job on slower runners, and the job is by far the slowest one in CI. Profiling showed that the SQLite database itself is under 5% of that time, so these changes target where the time actually goes.

Measured speedups

On CI: GitHub-hosted runners vary a lot in speed, so each run is compared with baseline runs on a runner of similar speed. As in #579, the webpack build time from the same job shows the runner's speed. The baseline is 14 recent runs without this change, 12 of which match these two speeds.

Runner	Baseline PHPUnit	This PR	Change	PHPUnit ÷ build time	Whole job
Slower (build about 14s)	464s (10 runs)	286s	~38% faster	32.9 → 21.2	~10m50s → 7m35s
Faster (build about 9s)	311s (2 runs)	172s	~45% faster	35.8 → 19.0	~7m30s → 5m13s

These are two runs of this PR, one on each runner speed. Test results match the baseline runs: 30,900 tests, with the same errors and failures, and the expected failures check passes. Peak memory went from 515 MB to 4.18 GB.

Locally: the full suite on native PHP 8.3 (not Docker), in seconds. Each row adds to the one above it. The list of failing tests was identical in all three runs.

Mode	PHPUnit	Change
Current settings	197.7s	—
Garbage collector off	153.8s	~22% faster
Garbage collector off and low bcrypt cost in fixtures	126.6s	~36% faster

Summary by CodeRabbit

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  • Updated PHP test execution settings and WordPress test setup. These changes affect the project’s testing configuration; no end-user-facing changes are included.

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Walkthrough

The test setup adds a bcrypt cost filter for WordPress test helpers. The Composer test command disables Zend garbage collection while running PHPUnit.

Changes: PHP test setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bcrypt test setup wp-setup.sh	The setup script appends a filter that sets the cost to 5 when the algorithm is PASSWORD_BCRYPT. It updates the numbered setup step comments.
PHPUnit garbage collection setting composer.json	The wp-test-php command disables Zend garbage collection for the PHPUnit process. Other PHP options and the test invocation remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · up to 87ac3

The changes are mergeable with bounded follow-up: existing checkouts miss the bcrypt speedup until setup is rerun. Increased memory demand is acknowledged, but a failure under the supported configuration has not been established.

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wp-test-php now disables PHP's garbage collector for the entire PHPUnit process. Unreachable cyclic objects may therefore accumulate across tests instead of being reclaimed, increasing memory use.

PHPUnit may exhaust its memory limit or be terminated by Docker before the suite completes.

This can occur when: A contributor runs the full suite through wp-test-php in a Docker environment with a memory limit below the approximately 4.18 GB peak reported for this change.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @wp-setup.sh:
- Around line 68-76: Ensure the bcrypt cost filter is installed when reusing an
existing WordPress checkout, since that path skips wp-setup.sh. Update the
ensure flow to install or invoke the filter for reused checkouts, or make its
installation idempotent there; preserve the existing behavior for fresh
checkouts and avoid duplicate filter registration.

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