On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Roger Llopart Pla <lumben...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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. >> > Sorry guys, I didn't realise there was an actual BC break in the serialized structure. I agree with bundling and providing a .ini setting to activate, but off by default. > >> 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 >> >> >
