[frederikbowson]

As I remember... CI2 was a small footprint framework.
It had a fast run time compared to other frameworks, very close to plain PHP.

In CI4 is this still something that will be considered?

[sv3tli0]

Yes and No ..

In dev mode there are a lot of shits added by composer for phpunit testing and etc..
In production mode composer adds just 4 additional packages and with them the size of the CI app become about 5MB.. (total ~800 files)

I think its really small footprint, if you try production mode of Laravel Symfony etc.. you will see the difference .

[kilishan]

In production mode composer adds just 4 additional packages and with them the size of the CI app become about 5MB.. (total ~800 files)

I think its really small footprint, if you try production mode of Laravel Symfony etc.. you will see the difference .

And in production, none of those Composer files will be necessary. There's a script that happens after composer update/install that moves only the relevant files into application/ThirdParty (only 2 or 3 right now, I believe). That's what will be packaged up in the zip file, keeping the footprint fairly close to what it was.