Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 20000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 3.596 ms (1.46M)
Serialize read: 6.797 ms

JSON save: 4.154 ms (876.63K)
JSON read: 9.602 ms

PHP save: 18.409 ms (1.78M)
PHP read: 26.329 ms

Memcache set: 8.401 ms
Memcache get: 2.736 ms

IGBinary save: 6.477 ms (364.67K)
IGBinary read: 2.283 ms

MsgPack save: 5.732 ms (638.31K)
MsgPack read: 5.330 ms

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