title: Will enabling XDebug on a production server make PHP slower?
body: <p>The title pretty much says it all...is it a bad idea ? I'd like to have the enhanced debug messages that XDebug provides on the server.</p>
  
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  Just to make things clear. I'm aware there are security risks involved. Perhaps I should complement my question and give more precise reasons why I would want to do this.</p>
  
  <p>Our production server hosts a testing platform also. Sometimes we use it to test things on a environment as close to production as possible. The main thing I'm looking for is using XDebug's enhanced <code>var_dump()</code>.</p>
  
  <p>This is not an app server for high traffic apps and performance is not that big of an issue. I was just curious if performance would be <strong>noticeably</strong> impacted by XDebug.</p>
  
  <p>Besides, I guess I could enable it only for the VirtualHost that defines the testing sites.</p>