> Why break anything? If you need faster serializer, it's quite easy to > get one, including msgpack. If it is really an issue that is important > for people, we could include the package into core. But I don't see > breaking BC in serialize/unserialize as a big win here. If it's really a > bottleneck, a userspace package abstracting the specific serializer > function could be easily created - and most clients like sessions > already allow to switch serializers by configs. So BC break does not > seem to be warranted here.
Perhaps a compromise would be to choose the quickest method of serialization, add it to PHP core. In php.ini add the directive serialization.method = msgpack / Igbinary / .... -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
