Sharpen Your Code with Benchmarking in PHP

software product must successfully pass the optimization step before it can hit the market and become a reference product. Finding memory leaks and increasing a product's performance is a delicate job that takes many hours of work and many human resources. Benchmarking is an important step in the optimization puzzle, because it can test both individual chunks of code and the entire codebase, and provides reports and statistics that reveal the true runtime parameters and performance.