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Yeah maybe a bit harsh. But the point is if you are looking for that kind of performance, I don't see why you wouldn't send binary data and then unpack it as ne

by amelius 5mo ago

Yeah maybe a bit harsh. But the point is if you are looking for that kind of performance, I don't see why you wouldn't send binary data and then unpack it as needed.

appreciatorBus 5mo ago
If you control both ends of the pipe, then sure. But for better or worse, large chunks of infrastructure expect to send or receive JSON.
- amelius 5mo ago
  But JSON uses floats, not integers.
  - bee_rider 5mo ago
    Does it really? I assumed it used strings.
  - Shish2k 5mo ago
    javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation
- __s 5mo ago
  csv/tsv are alive & well for interorg data pipelines
DarkUranium 5mo ago
Because maybe the choice of serialization format isn't under your control?