Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 20000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 1.920 ms (1.61M)
Serialize read: 4.874 ms

JSON save: 2.595 ms (991K)
JSON read: 7.063 ms

YAML save: 21.653 ms (932.41K)
YAML read: 27.104 ms

PHP save: 11.004 ms (1.89M)
PHP read: 15.586 ms

Memcache set: 4.369 ms
Memcache get: 1.806 ms

IGBinary save: 2.254 ms (364.73K)
IGBinary read: 1.223 ms

MsgPack save: 2.947 ms (733.08K)
MsgPack read: 2.553 ms

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