Description:
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ArrayObject iteration is slow.  I iterated over an ArrayObject (small 
and large) many times.  I expected iteration performance to be near that 
of a regular array.  Instead, iteration on ArrayObject actually took 5.5 
to 6 times longer than using a regular array.  This caused my real-world 
script to go from 8 seconds execution time to 47 seconds on average.

See also "bogus" bug 38528: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38528






Reproduce code:
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<?php
$data = 'We will test a simple string first.';
$numElements = 100; $numReadLoops = 50; $arr = array();

$startTime = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < $numElements; $i++) { $arr[] = $data; }
for ($i = 0; $i < $numReadLoops; $i++) { foreach ($arr as $element) {} }
$totalArrayTime = (microtime(true) - $startTime);
echo $totalArrayTime . " seconds.\n";

unset($arr);
$arr = new ArrayObject();
$startTime = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < $numElements; $i++) { $arr[] = $data; }
for ($i = 0; $i < $numReadLoops; $i++) { foreach ($arr as $element) {} }
$totalArrayObjectTime = (microtime(true) - $startTime);
echo $totalArrayObjectTime . " seconds.\n";

echo "ArrayObject took " . round($totalArrayObjectTime / $totalArrayTime, 2) . " times longer.\n";
?>



Expected result:
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ANY seconds.
ANY seconds.
ArrayObject took 1 times longer.






Actual result:
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0.00055193901062 seconds.
0.00314903259277 seconds.
ArrayObject took 5.71 times longer.