Re: Improve PHP 7 serialization
| From: | Andrey Andreev | Date: | Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:44:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Improve PHP 7 serialization | ||
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Park Framework
<park.framework@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not really, not because it is not good but because there is always be a
>> better one. We can't break format in every release.
>
> If you do not update in PHP 7 serialization method, it will never be
> updated, the default serialization in PHP 7 will be slow.
>
> To maintain backward compatibility, can implement support method calls
> on primitive types, new algorithms for serialization to be called only
> in the new API.
>
> $var->serialize()
> $var->unserialize()
>
> What do you think about this?
Not changing the serialize() format doesn't mean that other formats
can't be introduced via extensions. Though, I too would like to have
more of them available by default.
Cheers,
Andrey.