> The fastest file format is always the one you can just dump into memory and fix a few pointers. But these tend to be also the hardest formats to change/evolv

> The fastest file format is always the one you can just dump into memory and fix a few pointers. But these tend to be also the hardest formats to change/evolve... Flatbuffers is kind of like this. With untrusted data you just have to run the validation routine (that the code generator spits out) to check that all the internal offsets are closed within your buffer. https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/ https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/