views_get_current_view performance

Question

Does this function views_get_current_view inside views header or footer (to count rows number for example) means running the same view twice?
Or is it somewhat simplified version of running full view? Thank you.

Answer 1

That function is just a wrapper for this function: https://api.drupal.org/api/views/views.module/function/views_set_current_view/7.x-3.x which will just return a reference to a static code cache.

Conclusion: no view gets run, it's just grabbing a copy of what's already been created.

In general, views is very efficient in such cases.

But I'd tend to agree with @berramou that you might have a better way of accomplishing what you really, really want.