Re: why should $_SESSION be slower than other arrays?

John Holmes wrote:

From: "Aaron Voisine" <voisine@yahoo.com>

I read in the docs several comments that $_SESSION is slower that other arrays. One comment even had benchmarking info indicating it was about half as fast. I don't understand why this should be. Isn't $_SESSION just a normal super global array like any other, except that it get serialized and written to disk *once at the end* of a request? Why on earth would this impact the performance of reading and writing in the middle of a request? Is there some funkyness going on under the covers that I'm missing? Can it be made to work as I described?

Do you have links to these "docs"?? The following code gives me this: Normal $val: 9.4890594482422E-05 Session var: 1.1920928955078E-05

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