Serialization: should i?

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Hi everybody,

I'm working on improving one of my modules, and i was thinking on serializing some data into the database.

The data is the result of a GetProductProperties call. So, large data. I was thinking to serialize it with a cron job, so the there is no need to call that heavy function every time, and thus reducing table stress. I'd go this way so;

 

cron job: serialize the result of GetProductProperties() every hour

 

on front office, at page reload: get the serializd data base on current group/currency/lang, unserialize and use it.

 

Of course, the serialized string is pretty big. At this time i get unserialization error of unexpected end.

 

Will this method increase or decrease page loading time for each visit?

 

Cheers