首先，我修改了脚本，做了更多的基准测试(也做了1000次而不是1次):

<?php

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Make a big, honkin test array
// You may need to adjust this depth to avoid memory limit errors
$testArray = fillArray(0, 5);

$totalJsonTime = 0;
$totalSerializeTime = 0;
$totalJsonWins = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) {
    // Time json encoding
    $start = microtime(true);
    $json = json_encode($testArray);
    $jsonTime = microtime(true) - $start;
    $totalJsonTime += $jsonTime;

    // Time serialization
    $start = microtime(true);
    $serial = serialize($testArray);
    $serializeTime = microtime(true) - $start;
    $totalSerializeTime += $serializeTime;

    if ($jsonTime < $serializeTime) {
        $totalJsonWins++;
    }
}

$totalSerializeWins = 1000 - $totalJsonWins;

// Compare them
if ($totalJsonTime < $totalSerializeTime) {
    printf("json_encode() (wins: $totalJsonWins) was roughly %01.2f%% faster than serialize()\n", ($totalSerializeTime / $totalJsonTime - 1) * 100);
} else {
    printf("serialize() (wins: $totalSerializeWins) was roughly %01.2f%% faster than json_encode()\n", ($totalJsonTime / $totalSerializeTime - 1) * 100);
}

$totalJsonTime = 0;
$totalJson2Time = 0;
$totalSerializeTime = 0;
$totalJsonWins = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) {
    // Time json decoding
    $start = microtime(true);
    $orig = json_decode($json, true);
    $jsonTime = microtime(true) - $start;
    $totalJsonTime += $jsonTime;

    $start = microtime(true);
    $origObj = json_decode($json);
    $jsonTime2 = microtime(true) - $start;
    $totalJson2Time += $jsonTime2;

    // Time serialization
    $start = microtime(true);
    $unserial = unserialize($serial);
    $serializeTime = microtime(true) - $start;
    $totalSerializeTime += $serializeTime;

    if ($jsonTime < $serializeTime) {
        $totalJsonWins++;
    }
}

$totalSerializeWins = 1000 - $totalJsonWins;


// Compare them
if ($totalJsonTime < $totalSerializeTime) {
    printf("json_decode() was roughly %01.2f%% faster than unserialize()\n", ($totalSerializeTime / $totalJsonTime - 1) * 100);
} else {
    printf("unserialize() (wins: $totalSerializeWins) was roughly %01.2f%% faster than json_decode()\n", ($totalJsonTime / $totalSerializeTime - 1) * 100);
}

// Compare them
if ($totalJson2Time < $totalSerializeTime) {
    printf("json_decode() was roughly %01.2f%% faster than unserialize()\n", ($totalSerializeTime / $totalJson2Time - 1) * 100);
} else {
    printf("unserialize() (wins: $totalSerializeWins) was roughly %01.2f%% faster than array json_decode()\n", ($totalJson2Time / $totalSerializeTime - 1) * 100);
}

function fillArray( $depth, $max ) {
    static $seed;
    if (is_null($seed)) {
        $seed = array('a', 2, 'c', 4, 'e', 6, 'g', 8, 'i', 10);
    }
    if ($depth < $max) {
        $node = array();
        foreach ($seed as $key) {
            $node[$key] = fillArray($depth + 1, $max);
        }
        return $node;
    }
    return 'empty';
}

我使用PHP 7的这个版本:

PHP 7.0.14 (cli)(已构建:2017年1月18日19:13:23)(NTS)版权所有(c) PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0，版权所有(c) 1998-2016 Zend技术 与Zend OPcache v7.0.14，版权(c) 1999-2016，由Zend Technologies

我的结果是:

Serialize()(胜:999)比json_encode()快大约10.98% Unserialize()(胜:987)大约比json_decode()快33.26% Unserialize()(胜:987)大约比array快48.35% json_decode ()

显然，序列化/反序列化是最快的方法，而json_encode/decode是最可移植的方法。

如果您考虑这样一个场景:您读/写序列化数据的次数是向非php系统发送数据或从非php系统接收数据的次数的10倍或更多，那么就时间而言，最好还是使用序列化/反序列化，并在序列化之前使用json_encode或json_decode。

在你做出最终决定之前，请注意JSON格式对于关联数组是不安全的——json_decode()将它们作为对象返回:

$config = array(
    'Frodo'   => 'hobbit',
    'Gimli'   => 'dwarf',
    'Gandalf' => 'wizard',
    );
print_r($config);
print_r(json_decode(json_encode($config)));

输出是:

Array
(
    [Frodo] => hobbit
    [Gimli] => dwarf
    [Gandalf] => wizard
)
stdClass Object
(
    [Frodo] => hobbit
    [Gimli] => dwarf
    [Gandalf] => wizard
)

如果您正在缓存的信息最终希望在稍后的时间点“包含”，那么您可能希望尝试使用var_export。这样你只在“序列化”中受到打击，而不是在“反序列化”中受到打击。

JSON比PHP的序列化格式更简单、更快，除非:

你正在存储深度嵌套数组: json_decode(): "如果JSON编码的数据大于127个元素，此函数将返回false。" 您存储的对象需要被反序列化为正确的类 您正在与不支持json_decode的旧PHP版本进行交互

如果总结一下人们在这里所说的话，json_decode/encode似乎比序列化/反序列化BUT更快 如果执行var_dump，序列化对象的类型将被更改。 如果出于某种原因想要保留类型，请使用serialize!

(例如stdClass vs array)

序列化/非系列化:

Array cache:
array (size=2)
  'a' => string '1' (length=1)
  'b' => int 2
Object cache:
object(stdClass)[8]
  public 'field1' => int 123
This cache:
object(Controller\Test)[8]
  protected 'view' => 

JSON 编码/解码

Array cache:
object(stdClass)[7]
  public 'a' => string '1' (length=1)
  public 'b' => int 2
Object cache:
object(stdClass)[8]
  public 'field1' => int 123
This cache:
object(stdClass)[8]

正如你所看到的json_encode/decode将所有转换为stdClass，这不是很好，对象信息丢失…所以根据需要来决定，特别是如果它不仅仅是数组……

Y刚刚测试了serialized和json的encode和decode，加上它将把字符串存储的大小。

JSON encoded in 0.067085981369 seconds. Size (1277772)
PHP serialized in 0.12110209465 seconds. Size (1955548)
JSON decode in 0.22470498085 seconds
PHP serialized in 0.211947917938 seconds
json_encode() was roughly 80.52% faster than serialize()
unserialize() was roughly 6.02% faster than json_decode()
JSON string was roughly 53.04% smaller than Serialized string

我们可以得出结论，JSON编码更快，结果字符串更小，但unserialize解码字符串更快。