Kint vs PHPBench

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Kint		PHPBench
	Project
1	Mentions	3
2,740	Stars	1,839
0.0%	Growth	0.5%
7.3	Activity	8.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Kint

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Is there an application that I can use specifically for looking at the output of an array, similar to how I can do when using the laravel dd() method?
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 22 Jun 2022

PHPBench

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHPBench. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-22.

I've been loving Benchmarking lately, but the Framework does this one quirky thing with the first result of a set. Specifically, the first return is always unusually high.
1 project | /r/laravel | 6 Dec 2023

That was my first thought too. I used https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench in the past and it has a warmup feature where the code will run a couple times before the real benchmarking start
Comparing PHP Collections
4 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2022

I used phpbench to measure performance. I think one of the big differences between all the solutions is the type checking. So I decided to try measure it. How much faster will code with/without type checking?
Benchmark: Mezon Router is up to 196 tomes faster then Hoa Router
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2021

use phpbench

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kint and PHPBench you can also consider the following projects:

xDebug - Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP

PHP Debug Bar - Debug bar for PHP

XHProf - XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.

Tracy - 😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.

PHP Console - PHP Debug Console

Dontbug Debugger

laravel-ray - Debug with Ray to fix problems faster in Laravel apps

Barbushin PHP Console - Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome