On Mon, 7 May 2007, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > can write this data to disk. So, you needs 20MB. If serialize (and of > > > course unserialize) would be able to write directly to disk (or read > > > directly from disk), you only needs 10MB. > > > > Actually having serialize/unserialize be able to write directly to a stream > > and read directly from a stream might be interesting, would probably improve > > working with things like large sessions or caching large data substantially. > > Indeed, especially since this is the most common use case. Maybe it should > optionally also return an md5 of the written data.
If we're to add this, make sure writes to the files are atomic. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
