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0 pointstravisd4y ago0 comments

Their whole thing is tooling around protocol buffers, not the data format itself. The format is completely open source and comes from Google.

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Protobuf is not even all that good as a format, flatbuffers has generally better properties.

My impression is flatbuffers takes more cpu caused it doesn’t transform the binary payload (it’s use case)

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0 pointstravisd4y ago0 comments

Their whole thing is tooling around protocol buffers, not the data format itself. The format is completely open source and comes from Google.

Protobuf is not even all that good as a format, flatbuffers has generally better properties.

My impression is flatbuffers takes more cpu caused it doesn’t transform the binary payload (it’s use case)

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