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Ackrite
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Reputation: 11

How arrays stores in memcache via php-function Memcache::set()?

Does it use php function serialize() or some internal function of memcache extension? If it uses serialize(), then I can serialize my data myself with json_encode, for example. Will it be faster?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1328

Answers (1)

Pascal MARTIN
Pascal MARTIN

Reputation: 401002

The documentation of Memcache::set says (quoting) :

Strings and integers are stored as is, other types are stored serialized.

So I'm guessing it uses serialize internally ;-)


A good way to speed up the serialization/deserialization process would be to replace the internal default PHP serializer with something like [**igbinary**][2].

There are a couple of notes about that in theses slides presented by Ilia Alshanetsky a couple of weeks ago at the Forum PHP 2010 in Paris : APC & Memcached the High Performance Duo

Upvotes: 4

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