Optimize get_user_by( 'id', $id ) to return wp_get_current_user() when the current user ID is requested.

Provides for a major performance improvement by preventing repeated instantiations of WP_User in the capabilities API.

see #21120.



git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@21376 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

wp-includes/pluggable.php

@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ if ( !function_exists('get_user_by') ) :
  * @return bool|object False on failure, WP_User object on success
  */
 function get_user_by( $field, $value ) {
+	if ( 'id' === $field && (int) $value && get_current_user_id() === (int) $value )
+		return wp_get_current_user();
+
 	$userdata = WP_User::get_data_by( $field, $value );
 
 	if ( !$userdata )