Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 20000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 1.738 ms (1.61M)
Serialize read: 2.854 ms

JSON save: 2.096 ms (990.99K)
JSON read: 6.603 ms

YAML save: 20.284 ms (932.41K)
YAML read: 26.322 ms

PHP save: 9.519 ms (1.89M)
PHP read: 13.921 ms

Memcache set: 3.509 ms
Memcache get: 1.679 ms

IGBinary save: 1.977 ms (364.75K)
IGBinary read: 1.218 ms

MsgPack save: 2.554 ms (733.06K)
MsgPack read: 2.472 ms

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