Topic

PHP memory profiling

Measuring how PHP scripts use memory, including the difference between what a script allocates, what the Zend allocator holds and what the operating system reports for the process.

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Laravel's bootstrap cost 316KB of the 0.66MB a warm hello-world request used

A dev.to benchmark on Laravel 13.31.0 and PHP 8.4.22 splits a request into framework bootstrap and loaded data. The much-quoted 20MB to 30MB per-request figure turns out to measure PHP with OPcache disabled.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption12
Hype gap+15
Incentives22
Confidence46