On Sep 23, 2014 3:31 PM, "Paul Dragoonis" <dragoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I clearly didn't google, it would be interesting to see comparisons of high speed PHP serialization libraries. I for one would be happy, in PHP 7, to break BC serialization syntax in favour of putting in a much faster serializer by default. Similar scenario to putting in Zend OpCache by default instead of APC. > > Pierre, do you see merit on including <insert best overall serializer lib here> by default in PHP7 ? >
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.