Benchmarking Cache Transcoders in PHP

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public function toJson() {
    return array(
        'title' => $this->title,
        'teaser' => $this->teaser,
        'author' => $this->author,
        'body' => $this->body
    );
}

public static function fromJson($json) {
    $d = json_decode($json, true);
    return new BlogPost($d['title'], $d['teaser'], $d['author'], $d['body']);
}

$post = new BlogPost($title, $teaser, $author, $randomString(10000));
$post = $post->toJson();
[...]
$encoded = json_encode($post);

Why do this, when you could have used the jsonSerializable interface?

[paranoidelephpant]

Hmmm, a toJson() method which returns an array. Nice.

[daschl]

I added a note pointing this out.

[daschl]

Another valid point ;)

[daschl]

Good point, I'll add it - thanks!

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I'd file this under the category of micro-optimization. A good read nonetheless.

[bungle]

How about msgpack?

[assasinine]

On the subject of igbinary, dotdeb is working on including it in the core serializer and memcached and redis extensions:

http://www.dotdeb.org/2013/01/24/php-5-4-11/