Re: Activation of IGBinary serialization extension in 5.4 by default

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Arpad Ray <arraypad@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@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. agree with the BC part, just wanted to mention that that igbinary can already be set as a session handler via session.serialize_handler if the extension present. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu