php sessions and memcache

[Richard Thomas]

The problem is extra overhead, no matter what you do serialize and 
unserialize are called.

So on a read you have to serialize the data even though its already in a 
user format, on write you have to unserialize the input to your write 
function.

Thats 2 serializes called that shouldn't be needed if you could disable 
the sessions serializer.

That little overhead was enough that in my tests it wasn't really worth it.

Richard Thomas - CEO
Cyberlot Technologies Group Inc.
507.398.4124 - Voice


Andy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 08:11 -0500, Richard Thomas wrote:
> 
>>Currently the php user sessions would require everything be stored as a 
>>single serialized value, which could be pretty big.
>>
>>A customized extension could store each value as individual keys and use 
>>setters and getters to manage those values.
>>
>>This would allow you to only update keys that have changed instead of a 
>>large serialized session value.
> 
> 
> I have written a PHP5 session handler that does this in PHP code (no C
> extension) using mysql for storage -- minor modifications would make it
> use memcached instead.  It is not publicly available, but I will prepare
> it for public consumption tonight.  If you want it, shoot me an email at
> abakun (same domain this email came from) and I'll email you after it's
> up.
>