RE: [PHP-DEV] Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4 by default

From: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:01:45 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4 by default
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Dragoonis [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 18 August 2011 12:12
> To: PHP Internals List
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Activation of IGBinary serialization 
> extension in 5.4 by default
> 
> 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.
> 

I think MsgPack ( http://msgpack.org/ ) is a better option, as it
is
implementated in multiple languages.

Jared



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