Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 100000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 9.415 ms (1.5M)
Serialize read: 5.742 ms

JSON save: 1.977 ms (574.82K)
JSON read: 7.419 ms

PHP save: 8.572 ms (1.7M)
PHP read: 27.885 ms

Memcache set: 43.285 ms
Memcache get: 2.795 ms

IGBinary save: 1.550 ms (719.79K)
IGBinary read: 2.310 ms

MsgPack save: 2.547 ms (359.64K)
MsgPack read: 2.957 ms

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