Talking Garbage Collection with Derick Rethans

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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:

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

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Guests: Derick Rethans.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

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