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I thought that the big advantage of MessagePack was that it was smaller and quicker over networks. Network effects are the biggest cause of delay when transferr
by papaf 12y ago
I thought that the big advantage of MessagePack was that it was smaller and quicker over networks. Network effects are the biggest cause of delay when transferring data to remote machines and are much bigger than serialization performance.
The localhost testing done in the article will not show this advantage of MessagePack.
- swannodette 12y agoTransit JSON payloads benefit from standard gzipping techniques for the cases where the latencies are quite large as is the case when communicating with client browsers. For the cases where latencies are not quite so big we have yet to see evidence that Transit JSON suffers dramatically.