On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jonah H. Harris <jonah.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For the record here, igbinary is a very good example of such optimization: >> >> http://opensource.dynamoid.com/ > > igbinary is a nice extension indeed. However, for those of us who have > environments which include multiple programming languages, custom > serializations become a PITA. As such, we generally go with something more > portable such as Avro or straight JSON. Awhile back, I had done some work > rewriting the JSON serialization functions to use the fast (and BSD > licensed) yajl JSON parser (https://github.com/lloyd/yajl). Initial > benchmarks showed a 4-7% performance improvement in > serialization/deserialization.
Good point indeed. That makes me think about bson (http://bsonspec.org/), which is used by mongodb for example. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php