[wp-hackers] json_encode/decode VS serialization

[Ryan McCue]

Nathan Rice wrote:
> Has anyone done any research into this, and is there any chance (assuming
> reads would be faster with json_decode) that WordPress would switch to this
> method over (un)serialize? Seems like it would at least be worth some
> consideration.

I've done research into this for my own projects, and
json_encode/json_decode is *slightly* faster than serialize/unserialize,
but unless you've got 10k+ objects in a list, it's really not worth it.

(FWIW, I use json_encode/json_decode personally, since I'm storing 100k+
objects in a list. It's still only slightly faster, and certainly not
worth rewriting everything.)

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Ryan McCue
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