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A fast and compact format for serialization and storage

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Comparison to CBOR? #10

Open rse opened 8 years ago

rse commented 8 years ago

I've stumbled over your VPack and see your comparisons to other serialization formats. I'm just wondering how VPack compares to CBOR (http://cbor.io/), which in the meantime is even "standardized" in RFC 7049. Can you please add some comparison hints to your README for CBOR, too? Thanks.

CoDEmanX commented 8 years ago

My take away:

compactness of the data is not a primary goal in CBOR
data types are comparable to VPack, but there are also a few that are not available in VPack and vice versa
performance not mentioned as goal for JSON to CBOR to JSON conversions
no fast subvalue access
self-contained, schemaless, extensible like VPack

neunhoef commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of CBOR so far. I will leave this issue open until I got round to look at CBOR and add comments to our README.