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> gzip-compressed JSON CBOR is not about compression to make it smaller, but for machine readability. For example for integers CBOR uses binary representation
by kbumsik 7y ago
> gzip-compressed JSON
CBOR is not about compression to make it smaller, but for machine readability. For example for integers CBOR uses binary representation so that machines can read it directly without converting from string to integer in JSON.
- rocqua 7y agoExcept that CBOR uses network order, so you cannot just interpret the bytes as an integer.