Dear PHP Developers, Is there any way to access the binary representation of an object? I'm working on a PHP persistence layer and need to cache a bunch of class maps. Serializing/unserializing works, but profiling has shown that unserializing is not very efficient. Best Regards, Tom Duffey -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]