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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. bezier/msgpack-php ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) bezier/msgpack-php ================== MessagePack with pure PHP fail over 1.0.0(11y ago)52322[1 PRs](https://github.com/bezier/msgpack-php/pulls)PHPPHP >=5.4.0 Since Oct 23Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/bezier/msgpack-php)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/bezier/msgpack-php)[ RSS](/packages/bezier-msgpack-php/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced today READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (2)Used By (0) MessagePack PHP =============== [](#messagepack-php) The purpose of this project is to implement [MessagePack](http://msgpack.org/) serialization with PHP failover. This might be useful for someone unable to install php-modules, or using [HipHop](https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php) to compile PHP as C++. Composer -------- [](#composer) Project ------- [](#project) Please see: Example ------- [](#example) ``` use CharStream; $hole = "Light" $pack = msgpack_pack($hole); if ( msgpack_unpage($pack) === $hole ) { echo "The hole is lit."; } ``` Caveats ------- [](#caveats) - Only msgpack\_pack() and msgpack\_unpack() are defined. - It's only tested on [little endian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness) architecture, but should work on big endian as well, please test it if able. - The uint64 and int64 types probably requires 64-bit systems to work - It uses is\_x() to select the type, do your casts before using the functions - Unlike the official lib you can't pack objects. If you know how to do this please fork. - It will always pack integers into the least amount of bits possible, and will prefer unsigned. Benchmark --------- [](#benchmark) Based on [msgpack/php/benchmark.php](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/php/benchmark.php) As you can see the pure PHP implementation (msgpack-php) is quite slow compared with the great php-extension msgpack has created. However when msgpack-php is compiled using HipHop (msgpack-hphp) the performance difference is much less, with msgpack-hphp even beating msgpack in this particular benchmark a few places, perhaps due to the fact that the benchmark itself is compiled with HipHop as well. The timing values are average seconds sampled 10 times with 10.000 iterations each. Percentages are relative to normal php serialize() (not HipHop's version). ``` [integer ] default json igbinary msgpack msgpack-php msgpack-hphp status : OK OK OK OK OK OK serialize : 0.0105 (100%) 0.0090 ( 85%) 0.0089 ( 84%) 0.0093 ( 88%) 0.0550 ( 523%) 0.0051 ( 57%) unserialize: 0.0089 (100%) 0.0119 (134%) 0.0088 ( 99%) 0.0090 (101%) 0.0985 (1110%) 0.0208 (234%) size : 12 (100%) 9 ( 75%) 9 ( 75%) 5 ( 41%) 5 ( 41%) 5 ( 41%) [double ] default json igbinary msgpack msgpack-php msgpack-hphp status : OK OK OK OK OK OK serialize : 0.0323 (100%) 0.0132 ( 40%) 0.0092 ( 28%) 0.0094 ( 28%) 0.0740 (229%) 0.0074 ( 23%) unserialize: 0.0221 (100%) 0.0124 ( 56%) 0.0085 ( 38%) 0.0089 ( 40%) 0.1151 (521%) 0.0217 ( 98%) size : 54 (100%) 15 ( 27%) 13 ( 24%) 9 ( 16%) 9 ( 16%) 9 ( 16%) [string ] default json igbinary msgpack msgpack-php msgpack-hphp status : OK OK OK OK OK OK serialize : 0.0104 (100%) 0.0123 (118%) 0.0092 ( 88%) 0.0096 ( 91%) 0.0728 ( 700%) 0.0067 ( 64%) unserialize: 0.0095 (100%) 0.0153 (160%) 0.0093 ( 97%) 0.0097 (101%) 0.1469 (1543%) 0.0301 (316%) size : 40 (100%) 34 ( 85%) 38 ( 95%) 35 ( 87%) 35 ( 87%) 35 ( 87%) [array ] default json igbinary msgpack msgpack-php msgpack-hphp status : OK OK OK OK OK OK serialize : 0.0183 (100%) 0.0297 (162%) 0.0222 (121%) 0.0134 ( 73%) 0.5567 (3042%) 0.0432 (236%) unserialize: 0.0174 (100%) 0.0363 (207%) 0.0171 ( 98%) 0.0170 ( 97%) 0.7823 (4483%) 0.1665 (957%) size : 226 (100%) 176 ( 77%) 186 ( 82%) 176 ( 77%) 176 ( 77%) 176 ( 77%) [array ] default json igbinary msgpack msgpack-php msgpack-hphp status : OK OK OK OK OK OK serialize : 0.0199 (100%) 0.0481 (242%) 0.0306 (153%) 0.0148 ( 74%) 0.8513 (4285%) 0.0763 ( 383%) unserialize: 0.0231 (100%) 0.0583 (252%) 0.0202 ( 87%) 0.0248 (107%) 1.4168 (6134%) 0.3156 (1366%) size : 406 (100%) 351 ( 86%) 346 ( 85%) 351 ( 86%) 351 ( 86%) 351 ( 86%) ``` ### Health Score 29 — LowBetter than 57% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity17 Limited adoption so far Community11 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity58 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 80% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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