Composer Dependency Manager
Manual vs Automatic Class Loading
Performance Benefits
Development Workflow Improvements
Namespace to Directory Mapping
Directory Structure Requirements
Implementation Guidelines
Legacy Support
Migration Considerations
Differences from PSR-4
Namespace Mapping
Multiple Namespace Support
Directory Scanning
File Inclusion
Function and Constant Loading
Bootstrap File Inclusion
autoload-dev Section
Test Suite Integration
Development Tool Autoloading
composer dump-autoload Command
Classmap Optimization
Authoritative Classmap Generation
APCu Cache Integration
Performance Benchmarking
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