Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 100000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 4.239 ms (1.5M)
Serialize read: 5.139 ms

JSON save: 2.157 ms (575.04K)
JSON read: 7.089 ms

PHP save: 9.350 ms (1.7M)
PHP read: 28.107 ms

Memcache set: 41.661 ms
Memcache get: 2.732 ms

IGBinary save: 1.927 ms (720.38K)
IGBinary read: 2.300 ms

MsgPack save: 4.220 ms (360.21K)
MsgPack read: 2.890 ms

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