> With things like Flatbuffers, I sometimes feel we've regressed to these old formats that are just memory dumps. It depends on what your application requireme

> With things like Flatbuffers, I sometimes feel we've regressed to these old formats that are just memory dumps. It depends on what your application requirements are, but there are compelling arguments that on-disk / on-wire representations should match in-memory representations. It’s not too hard to end up with in a scenario where encoding / decoding times are a significant contribution to overall performance.