Hacker News with Generative AI: Serialization

MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. (msgpack.org)
MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves.

Serialization, Data Exchange, Programming Languages, Performance

101 points by davikr 7 days ago | 70 comments

Cramming Scrapscript into Msgpack (taylor.town)
msgpack is a lovely little serialization format. As a JSON replacement, it saves bandwidth while preserving native language features (e.g. tuples, records, objects, dates).

Serialization, Programming Languages, Data Formats

12 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 1 comments

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021) (mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC.

Software, Inter-Process Communication, gRPC, API, Serialization

121 points by zardinality 59 days ago | 93 comments

Boosting Jackson's Serialization Performance with Quarkus (quarkus.io)

Java, Serialization, Performance, Frameworks, Optimization

10 points by ravirajx7 152 days ago | 0 comments

Fast Lua Serialization (2023) (artemis.sh)

Lua, Performance, Serialization

87 points by synergy20 169 days ago | 50 comments

Version Tolerant Serialization in C++ (developernote.com)

C++, Serialization, Software Development

4 points by jandeboevrie 193 days ago | 0 comments

Serialization for C# Games (chickensoft.games)

Serialization, C#, Game Development

133 points by jolexxa 217 days ago | 48 comments