On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Arpad Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
agree with the BC part, just wanted to mention that that igbinary can
already be set as a session handler via session.serialize_handler if
the extension present.
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