Igbinary is a drop in replacement for the standard PHP serializer. Instead of time and space consuming textual representation, igbinary stores PHP data structures in a compact binary form. Savings are significant when using memcached or similar memory based storages for serialized data.
Created attachment 232355 [details] igbinary-1.0.2 Added ebuild for package
This ebuild is now in the sunrise-overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/dev-php5/igbinary