# Tooling comparison

> What is the real difference between two tools doing the same job?

- Status: Open
- Record count: 1
- Source: https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/program/arac-karsilastirma/
- Language: en-US
- Author: Muhammet Şafak

---
The measurable difference between two tools doing the same job: build time, output size, memory and the developer loop.

## Findings ledger

### The fixed cost of installing a PHP framework: disk size tells you nothing

- Question: How many megabytes on disk, how many files per request and how many milliseconds on the first request do seven PHP frameworks cost — and which of those numbers actually predicts throughput under load?
- Finding: Disk size predicts nothing: Yii2 has the largest vendor tree at 34.1 MB and loads only 62 files per request, among the fewest in the field. Files per request predicts nothing either: CodeIgniter loads 96 files and serves 6,431 req/s, Symfony loads 224 and serves 13,067. The one number that genuinely separates them is the first request served with a cold opcache: 2.2 ms for Phalcon, 72.2 ms for Laravel — thirty-three times. That is the compile bill the first visitor pays after every deploy, and it is measured in tens of milliseconds, not kilobytes.
- https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-footprint/
- Markdown: https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-footprint.md