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The Undercover ElePHPant
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Episode 1
Season 1
Talking Garbage Collection with Derick Rethans
Thanks to PHP being an interpreted language and it that it has a garbage collector, PHP developers don't often have to think about memory management. Unlike developers in compiled languages, such as C/C++, we don't have to give that much thought to memory allocation and deallocation.
However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Derick Rethans about:
However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Derick Rethans about:
- The basics of how garbage collection works in PHP
- About how Xdebug and garbage collection in PHP came about
- About some of the functions available for interacting with it
- How to get the most out of garbage collection
Links
- https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/what-is-garbage-collection-in-php-and-how-do-you-make-the-most-of-it
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0aa0/bbefc44d55a18826a0d82007f4b1f678cb36.pdf
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823054
- https://xdebug.org/support
- https://derickrethans.nl/xdebug-update-september-2019.html
Guests: Derick Rethans.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email podcast@tideways.com.
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email podcast@tideways.com.
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.