So you claim that decoding flat buffers and protobuf is faster than decoding with `struct`? I'm pretty much aware of various flaws and even stated some, but I b

So you claim that decoding flat buffers and protobuf is faster than decoding with `struct`? I'm pretty much aware of various flaws and even stated some, but I barely buy that claim without a separate benchmark (which I really welcome by the way). At least I fully understand what the `struct` module actually does under the hood---it sorta compiles to a list of fields and "interprets" the dead simple VM in C. Oh, of course I've used the precompiled `struct.Struct` for that reason (but it was only 20% faster). Anyway, this arrangement is typical for most schematic serialization formats in any language: a bunch of function calls for gluing the desired format, plus a set of well-optimized core functions (not necessarily written in C :-). Henceforth my justification that this is close to the "bare-bones" serialization format.