Re: Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4 by default

From: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:15:01 +0000
Subject: Re: Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4 by default
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All,

We're fairly heavy users of igbnary and we've found that the latest
1.1.1 from pecl has issues with values-by-reference and therefore can't
be used as a drop-in replacement for the standard serialiser as it
stands.

I suspect it's the same issue as this
https://github.com/igbinary/igbinary/issues/6

John.

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 12:12 +0100, Paul Dragoonis 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!
> 
> 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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