Re: Binary (msgpack) serialize/unserialize

2017-06-29 2:13 GMT+03:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>: > Hi! > >> Back in 2014 there was an informal proposal on the mailing list to replace >> PHP serialization with an efficient binary (msgpack) format. > > Why replace? If you have it as an extension, can't people that want to > use it just use it? > > I'm still not sure why we need to do anything in core that can't be done > in an extension. Is there some handler missing that doesn't allow to use > custom serializer in some scenario? PHP Session, Memcache, Redis, etc - not configuring custom serializer.