A Java language newbie question: Does anyone have any ballpark numbers on the cost (and its scaling) of peppering assert's in your Java code, but with asserts disabled (-da) ? In other words, is the disabled cost so vanishingly small that we need not think twice when using them, or should one be careful because the cost is non-negligible and can affect (bytecode) footprint or rutime performace even when switched off?
thanks for any advice. -- ramki
