Compare serialize/unserialize PHP functions

Using 100000 element array as source data

Serialize save: 6.810 ms (1.5M)
Serialize read: 5.718 ms

JSON save: 1.962 ms (574.98K)
JSON read: 6.894 ms

PHP save: 8.447 ms (1.7M)
PHP read: 27.719 ms

Memcache set: 15.569 ms
Memcache get: 2.637 ms

IGBinary save: 1.442 ms (719.92K)
IGBinary read: 2.270 ms

MsgPack save: 1.564 ms (359.76K)
MsgPack read: 3.143 ms

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