I agree with bundling it in the core aswell, but having it as default, as stated, would be a huge BC break.
2011/8/18 Arpad Ray <array...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoo...@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. > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
