Re: [PHP4BETA] Serialization efficiency

As long as the data can be written and read on different-endian machines, I don't mind. But what about optimizing the serialisation code instead (perhaps by using a binary but network-byte-order format)? - Stig On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > I know that the session module uses serialization code that's platform > independent, because it generates human readable output. Question is, why > would we want that? > > Storing server-side information should be as quick as possible, and you > rarely care about platform independence. I think that storing binary > representations of pval's would be much quicker to both read and write in > comparison to the text based serialization we're using now. > > Using binary serialization may be less suitable for database-based > storage, but actually, you can use BLOBs or even VARCHAR's on any decent > SQL server. > > Zeev > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il > > > > -- > PHP 4 Beta >