I guess serialize mechanism cant use any char that can be part of a PHP variable. And "_" can. As property names respect binary compatibility, the only char that can be used to mark private properties is actually the NULL byte. Ping me if I'm wrong.
But I'm +1 for improving the serialize() speed, I had problems recently with it, and igbinary came to save me as well :) Julien.Pauli On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbo...@openmv.com> wrote: > On Thu Nov 25 12:47 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote: >> >> I know there have been some high-end apps that have benefited from >> some custom serializers, etc... (typically platform dependent). >> I wonder if people here think improvements in these areas would move >> the needle for the majority of mainstream apps or not. >> > > Like people have mentioned, improving (un)serialize speed would be a huge > benefit, especially for caching data sets or large objects. > > From experience, it would seem valuable to have: > 1) serialize_text($var) > > The existing serialize() minus the NULL bytes on private properties. It has > been a source problems for developers serializing an object with private > properties and storing it in a database (the string may get cutoff). > > I'm not sure why there's a NULL byte in 'zend_mangle_property_name', instead > the char "_" could be used to mark a private property in the serialized > text. > The unserialize could be BC compatible accepting both NULL and "_" around a > private property. > > 2) serialize_binary($var) > > An efficient and compact serialization using techniques from igbinary. > > A potential problem with igbinary I've noticed is it packs a double as a 64 > bit integer. > That could be a problem if you serialize on a platform that has an IEEE 754 > binary representation and unserialize on a non-IEEE platform but I don't > know if php compiles on architectures that are non-IEEE. > > It could also be interesting to pack integers as varints: > http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html#varints > http://protobuf-c.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/google/protobuf-c/protobuf-c. > c > > That's most likely slower though then what igbinary does with integers > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
