Re: [drupal-devel] performance improvements - avoiding big unserialize()

Konstantin Käfer wrote:

Hi,

why don't we use the var_export() function [1] and save the settings to a regular file? And for versions prior to PHP 4.2.0 we could write a workaround function - at least it seams pretty simple to implement.

Regards, Konstantin Käfer

[1]: http://php.net/manual/en/function.var-export.php

I'd like to see some benchmarks on this approach vs. current serialization technique.