The measurable difference between two tools doing the same job: build time, output size, memory and the developer loop.https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en-USThu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTinfo@muhammetsafak.com.tr (Muhammet Şafak)https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-footprint/https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-footprint/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.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTarac-karsilastirmaphpframeworkopcachecomposerdependencies