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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #105, on April 6th, 2011, 08:05 PM »
Quote from Dragooon on April 6th, 2011, 08:02 PM
In my tests serializing/unserializing a 1.5MB array was as fast as including a file with that array, which was much faster than JSON..for some surprising reason.
What version of PHP was that? What was the source data?

I benchmarked it a bit back and found that it was fastest to json_decode the array but the entire array was nested arrays of numbers, and we're talking a 26k string when JSON encoded. (Remember, for the majority of the time, the hurt of serialize isn't an issue, it's the hurt of json_decode vs unserialize vs raw array that we're interested in)
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #106, on April 6th, 2011, 08:09 PM »
Quote from Arantor on April 6th, 2011, 08:05 PM
Quote from Dragooon on April 6th, 2011, 08:02 PM
In my tests serializing/unserializing a 1.5MB array was as fast as including a file with that array, which was much faster than JSON..for some surprising reason.
What version of PHP was that? What was the source data?

I benchmarked it a bit back and found that it was fastest to json_decode the array but the entire array was nested arrays of numbers, and we're talking a 26k string when JSON encoded. (Remember, for the majority of the time, the hurt of serialize isn't an issue, it's the hurt of json_decode vs unserialize vs raw array that we're interested in).
It was PHP 5.3.2 and the source data was actually a 2.7MB array containing information about 630 vbulletin forums along with permission combinations for each of 103 groups of every forum. include and serialize was about the same at 0.35 seconds whereas json was about at 0.4-0.5. Apparently they can be faster than each other depending upon the size and type of data.
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #107, on April 6th, 2011, 08:16 PM »
Yup, textual content is processed slower than numeric content in the JSON functions from everything I've seen.

Would still be interested to know how unserialize and json_decode performed rather than serialize and json_encode; I spend less time writing that data than I do reading it, invariably.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #109, on April 10th, 2011, 05:35 PM »
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #110, on April 10th, 2011, 10:33 PM »
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #111, on April 13th, 2011, 10:06 PM »
Post count on this site is really growing bigger and bigger.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #112, on April 13th, 2011, 10:49 PM »
I think it's related to the fact that there are new posts being sent! But it warrants further research...

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #113, on April 13th, 2011, 10:53 PM »
Yeah, we let a couple of hardcore spammers here...

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #114, on April 13th, 2011, 11:51 PM »
Like me? :sob: :sob:


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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #115, on April 14th, 2011, 09:01 AM »
Pete opened Pandora's box in the first place... Anyone posted over there is a spammer anyway. :niark:

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #117, on April 14th, 2011, 10:24 AM »
Spam is acceptable as long as it's manageable... (e.g. it stays in a couple of spam topics, things like that.)
But overall it's not really something I condone.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #118, on April 14th, 2011, 01:21 PM »
This is friendly spam, not the kind of retarded forum spam...

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