• lysdexic@programming.devOP
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      11 months ago

      I’d love to see benchmarks testing the two, and out of curiosity also including compressed JSON docs to take into account the impact of payload volume.

      Nevertheless, I think there are two major features that differentiate protobuff and fleece, which are:

      • fleece is implemented as an appendable data structure, which might open the door to some usages,
      • protobuf supports more data types than the ones supported by JSON, which may be a good or bad thing depending on the perspective.

      In the end, if the world survived with XML for so long, I’d guess we can live with minor gains just as easily.

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        11 months ago

        “Appendable” seems like a positive spin on the “truncated YAML-file is frighteningly often valid” problem…

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          11 months ago

          "Appendable” seems like a positive spin on the (…)

          I don’t think your take makes sense. It’s a write-only data structure which supports incremental changes. By design it tracks state and versioning. You can squash it if you’d like but others might see value in it.

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      11 months ago

      You probably wouldn’t. The main difference is that protobuf is structured while fleece is unstructured, so you would use it in places where you don’t want to (or can’t) tie yourself to a schema outright.

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      It’s not serialized from what I understand so it doesn’t need parsing. It’s sort of a structure+pointer dump. We’ll see how well that translates to other languages than C though.