Flatbuffers would be better as it doesn't need to deserialize at all (I think protobuf supports to partially deserialization nowadays?). I did something similar

Flatbuffers would be better as it doesn't need to deserialize at all (I think protobuf supports to partially deserialization nowadays?). I did something similar with https://github.com/liuliu/dflat https://github.com/liuliu/dflat too!