PHP Memory Management - Variables within Loops

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Does PHP perform wise memory management in regards to variables within loops?

For example, would memory allocation be performed for the following example, beyond the first iteration?

foreach ($items as $item) { $item_found = true; }

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:14:34Z

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Memory for variables $items, $item and $item_found will be allocated once (on first iteration only). By default, PHP allocates memory for variables if it encounters new ones.

Read about GC and this question: How does PHP assign and free memory for variables?. It should give you some information about PHP memory management. Also note that PHP uses "copy-on-write" scheme.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:14

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