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Adventures in Binary Serialisation :: KataShift #1

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utterances-bot commented 9 months ago

Adventures in Binary Serialisation :: KataShift

UB? Never!

https://blog.maguire.tech/posts/explorations/binary-serialisation/

emberian commented 9 months ago

I wrote https://gitlab.com/robigalia/ssmarshal for a usecase that was OK spending some time shuffling bytes around to rearrange due to padding or etc, but absolutely did not want to spend any additional bytes compared to the heap representation.

You may be interested / horrified by rkyv and its rel_ptr crate, it provides a robust solution to not wanting to pay costs deserializing. Instead you pay once when writing, and have a slightly different representation (derived via Archive) for types stored on disk. Some cool experiments there.