I'd be curious to see how FlatBuffers lines up against MsgPack seeing as it requires just a single allocation and read. Heck if you want to get fancy(and have

I'd be curious to see how FlatBuffers lines up against MsgPack seeing as it requires just a single allocation and read. Heck if you want to get fancy(and have access to mmap) you can just mmap() your FlatBuffer data and let the kernel handle paging it in/out for you for very low memory overhead.