Oh I see, yes you are correct each request will bootstrap your PHP code stack framework each time (mitigate with opcache). Seems weird I know, but it goes back to that "shared nothing" principal: nothing is kept in memory between requests. On the plus side of that principal: nothing is kept in memory between requests that is not currently being used.
Coming from a Java background into PHP, this really confused me at first, until I started to think about PHP's approach as some kind of super-agressive garbage collection: everything gets released in that reqest thread once it's completed.
It's a fundemental design choice of the language that you have to embrace if you want to use PHP (I love it now, simplifies so much), or move on to another language.
Coming from a Java background into PHP, this really confused me at first, until I started to think about PHP's approach as some kind of super-agressive garbage collection: everything gets released in that reqest thread once it's completed.
It's a fundemental design choice of the language that you have to embrace if you want to use PHP (I love it now, simplifies so much), or move on to another language.