<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:mart@degeneration.co.uk">mart@degeneration.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think a better answer here is "hunks of raw data".</blockquote><div><br>
I prefer the babes.<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
assume that the PHP client library puts anything that isn't a string or
an integer through serialize(), and likewise passes anything that'spreviously been serialized back through unserialize() on the way out. </blockquote></div><br>
The PHP client apparently uses the 16-bits field to indicate that the
value is a serialized one. I expect that it's possible to skip
serializing completely...<br>