Just read over the BSON spec, looks fairly interesting, the only bit that appears to be missing for PHP purposes is object support. We would need to introduce custom type on top of standard BSON. However from compactness and consistency standpoint it looks fairly appealing.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jonah H. Harris <jonah.har...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> For the record here, igbinary is a very good example of such optimization: >>> >>> http://opensource.dynamoid.com/ >> >> igbinary is a nice extension indeed. However, for those of us who have >> environments which include multiple programming languages, custom >> serializations become a PITA. As such, we generally go with something more >> portable such as Avro or straight JSON. Awhile back, I had done some work >> rewriting the JSON serialization functions to use the fast (and BSD >> licensed) yajl JSON parser (https://github.com/lloyd/yajl). Initial >> benchmarks showed a 4-7% performance improvement in >> serialization/deserialization. > > Good point indeed. That makes me think about bson > (http://bsonspec.org/), which is used by mongodb for example. > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
