Any benchmarks compared with Thrift and Protobuf? BTW, Hadoop's new Avro project is yet another serialization project that's designed to be dynamic language fri

Any benchmarks compared with Thrift and Protobuf? BTW, Hadoop's new Avro project is yet another serialization project that's designed to be dynamic language friendly. I personally find thrift IDL trivial to manage and is probably the only sane way to support a dozen languages (statically and dynamically typed) in a type safe and efficient way. BERT-RPC is simple, but what if you find your server too slow and needs to be rewritten in another language? I think the Thrift approach makes that simpler.