I agree with bundling it in the core aswell, but having it as default, as
stated, would be a huge BC break.
2011/8/18 Arpad Ray <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Paul Dragoonis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > After a brief discussion with Pierre I'm taking this discussion to here.
> > We have the igbinary pecl extension available [1], however not many of
> our
> > userbase are familiar that it even exists.
> > Here [2] is the performance boost we get from using igbinary with
> > serialize() and unserialize().
> >
> > Here we get a great perf boost, and what's more excellent as we don't
> have
> > to break BC to get there!
>
> It would break BC for anyone with serialized strings stored in the
> current format.
>
> Maybe bundle it in core and provide an ini setting like
> session.serialize_handler, but I don't think making it the default in
> 5.4 is an option.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arpad
>
> >
> > This seems like a no-brainer and a good investment in the speed increase
> of
> > PHP by default for the future users of the platform.
> >
> > [1] http://pecl.php.net/package/igbinary
> > [2] http://www.php.net/~pierre/vcqa/apcigninary_perf.png
> >
> > Comments please.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul Dragoonis.
> >
>
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