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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4
 by default
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Paul Dragoonis wrote:
> 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.

I find that the ability to quickly scan the session files when a client is 
having problems and identify their session is something that I use at least a 
couple of times a month on various remote sites. If the session data is not 
readable text then I can't do that. So anything that is done definitely needs to 
have an off switch as far as I am concerned. I only store a small amount of key 
data in the session - the rest is serialised into the clients database record, 
and I would prefer to use text blobs for that rather than having to manage 
binary data ...

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