Seems like this could be useful as an alternate API format. I'd like to see sites offering plist (bigger than JSON but dead simple parsing in Cocoa) and serialized formats as well as JSON and XML and all that.
It's like JSON. but fast and small.
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Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#22It looks cool, but be very careful about using it (in a browser, at least). Browsers have super-fast JSON parsers and parsing msgpack is much, much slower than parsing good old JSON. This great comment (from 201 days ago) is exactly about this issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091051 I quote a bit of it here: JSON size: 386kb MsgPack size: 332kb Difference: -14% Encoding with JSON.stringify 4 ms Encoding wi…
The Pintrest testimonial on the msgpack website is a very good example of use case: serializing and de-serializing for memcache. The don't claim to be using it for browser-server communication.
Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#23and why not just use protocol buffers?
Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#24In my own tests, the json parser you use has a massive impact on runtime, and msgpack is much faster than other altarnatives.
My own measurements: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9884080/fastest-packing-o...
Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#25How would this compare to YAML in terms of speed?
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#26From an API perspective, msgpack is indeed quite similar to json (at least for python) -- it was quite easy to reuse existing json machinery for integrating into spyne. I'm not aware of anybody using Spyne with msgpack though.
Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#27Seems like this could be useful as an alternate API format. I'd like to see sites offering plist (bigger than JSON but dead simple parsing in Cocoa) and serialized formats as well as JSON and XML and all that.
Thats a large amount of testing, potential bugs for what purpose?
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#28A comparison between msgpack and Sereal and other formats. Sereal is a format we released at work a few months ago: http://blog.booking.com/sereal-a-binary-data-serialization-f...
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#29For those who are interested in Pinterest usecase (Memcached + MessagePack), please access to this url too.
> http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/
Re: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
#30It looks cool, but be very careful about using it (in a browser, at least). Browsers have super-fast JSON parsers and parsing msgpack is much, much slower than parsing good old JSON. This great comment (from 201 days ago) is exactly about this issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091051 I quote a bit of it here: JSON size: 386kb MsgPack size: 332kb Difference: -14% Encoding with JSON.stringify 4 ms Encoding wi…
The Pintrest testimonial on the msgpack website is a very good example of use case: serializing and de-serializing for memcache. The don't claim to be using it for browser-server communication.
For those who are interested in Pinterest usecase (Memcached + MessagePack), please access to this url too.
> http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/