Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 20000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 3.657 ms (1.46M)
Serialize read: 5.644 ms

JSON save: 4.071 ms (876.62K)
JSON read: 9.457 ms

PHP save: 19.476 ms (1.78M)
PHP read: 25.397 ms

Memcache set: 8.101 ms
Memcache get: 2.580 ms

IGBinary save: 5.733 ms (364.5K)
IGBinary read: 2.147 ms

MsgPack save: 5.324 ms (638.13K)
MsgPack read: 5.470 ms

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