Re: json stream filter

Markus Staab <maggus.staab@gmail.com> wrote: > first post on the list, so please bare with me ;-) No, I'm getting nekkee with you... :) > we are handling a lot of cache files in our apps and use json to persist > those contents on the filesystem, because it seems to be the fastest > possible way to read/write files with PHP. > > Since I discovered stream-filters, > http://www.php.net/manual/en/filters.php, > we use those also for base64 encoding files before sending them over the > wire, which preserves a lot of memory and allows even bigger files. > > Would it make sense to also have a native stream filter for fileformats > like JSON, to get maximum performance for reading/writing those (and also > to be able to write big files)? I think this could be a real win for some folks; I personally haven't got a use for it at the moment, but I can see where it would make a lot of sense of some applications.