Or "I'm making an educated guess". Otherwise how can you get truly surprised when things turn out to be different in the real world :-) I'd also guess it would

Or "I'm making an educated guess". Otherwise how can you get truly surprised when things turn out to be different in the real world :-) I'd also guess it would be more expensive during decoding. So let's compare that with some real data: https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki (old wiki but with some graphs https://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking https://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Bench...) it turns out that state of the art JSON serialisers aren't so bad after all, especially the serialisation.