In this paper, we perform a case study of PHP memory characteristics to determine whether they warrant a high performance ex- act collector. Perhaps some scripting languages have simple allocation patterns that will not benefit from generational and other high performance collectors. The PHP scripting language was designed for web programming and it is the most used server-side scripting language for web development in use today. PHP programs create dynamic web content in response to user requests. Nonetheless, no study has examined the memory performance of the PHP language in depth.