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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:30:15 +0100
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To: Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4
 by default
From: arraypad@gmail.com (Arpad Ray)

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> 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.
>