2015-09-17 We all know that profiling is the way to measure time performance and that this is the basis on which all time optimization should be done. But how often do we profile code? Too seldom, at least in my case. Today, I used the xdebug extension to profile php code. And -- wow! -- it's so easy! Then I used cg2dot from the xdebugtools [0] and xdot(1) to display the results. (xdot is a graphical tool that does one thing and does it well.) For an alternative view, I used webgrind to create textual results. Knowing the right tools is a step forward in the quality of your development work. [0] https://github.com/AlexeyKupershtokh/xdebugtoolkit http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke