From:             am at andremeyer dot name
Operating system: Windows XP
PHP version:      5.0.0RC2
PHP Bug Type:     Performance problem
Bug description:  Disabling assertions does not affect performance

Description:
------------
Disabling assertions in PHP does not affect performance. After testing my
software with assertions, I want to disable assertions. I do this with 

ini_set('assert.active', false);

Surprisingly, the assert() statements in my software _still_ consume a
considerable amount of time.


Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

$doAsserts = array(true, false);

foreach ($doAsserts as $doAssert)
{
        ini_set('assert.active', $doAssert);            // Turn assertions on/off
        $startTime = microtime(true);

        for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++)
                assert(is_numeric($i));

        $endTime = microtime(1);
        $time = $endTime - $startTime;
        print "Elapsed time: $time\r\n";
}

?>


Expected result:
----------------
I expect something like:

Elapsed time: 1.3514750003815 // assertions turned on
Elapsed time: 0.4243453254354 // assertions turned off

I expect the elapsed time to decrease when turning assertions off.


Actual result:
--------------
Elapsed time: 1.3480539321899 // assertions turned on
Elapsed time: 1.3210921287537 // assertions turned off

As you can see, when turning assertions off, the elapsed time is nearly
the same. So I have to comment all my assertions in order to achieve a
better peformance.


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