I’ve written PHP apps that process millions of entities without issue at my old job. We didn’t use an ORM or anything magic. At my current job, using an ORM, my

I’ve written PHP apps that process millions of entities without issue at my old job. We didn’t use an ORM or anything magic. At my current job, using an ORM, my code has twice as much memory yet I can only load a few thousand entities before OOMing. If you’re willing to give up magic, it’s worth it.