PHP - *fast* serialize/unserialize?

Question

I have a PHP script that builds a binary search tree over a rather large CSV file (5MB+). This is nice and all, but it takes about 3 seconds to read/parse/index the file.

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Answer 1

First you have to change the way your program works. divide CSV file to smaller chunks. This is an IP datastore i assume. .

Convert all IP addresses to integer or long.

So if a query comes you can know which part to look. There are functions to do this. So 0 to 2^32 convert all IP addresses into 5000K/50K total 100 smaller files. This approach brings you quicker serialization.

Think smart, code tidy ;)