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A Benchmark of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications — mentioned by jviotti

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:33:20 GMT

It surprised me how popular this message got. I love nerding out about binary serialization and space-efficiency and great to see I'm not the only one :) If you want to get deeper, I published two (publicly available) deep papers studying the current state of JSON-compatible binary serialization that you might enjoy. They study in a lot of detail technologies like Protocol Buffers, CBOR, MessagePack, and others that were mentioned in the thread: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051 Hope they are useful!

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A Benchmark of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications — mentioned by jviotti

Fri, 17 May 2024 15:26:42 GMT

I did a lot of research on binary serialization at the University of Oxford. One of the papers I published is a comprehensive review of existing JSON-compatible serialization formats (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089). It touches on Protocol Buffers (and >10 other formats) and I'm analyzing the resulting hexadecimals close to how the OP is doing. I also published a space-efficiency benchmark of those same formats (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051) and ended up creating https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com as a proposed technology that does binary serialization of JSON using JSON Schema.

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A Benchmark of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications — mentioned by jviotti

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:00:37 GMT

If you are interested in learning more about binary serialization (for Cap'n Proto and others), I wrote two free-to-read papers extensively looking at the scene from a space-efficiency point of view that people here might be interested in: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051 Not something that aims to compete with Cap'n Proto (different use cases), but I've been also working on a binary serialization format that is pure JSON-compatible with a focus on space-efficiency: https://www.jsonbinpack.org. Benchmarks here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799

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A Benchmark of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications — HN submission

Sat, 20 May 2023 06:36:20 GMT

A Benchmark of JSON-Compatible Binary Serialization Specifications [pdf]

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