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Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by pjmlp on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:10AM (#15891084)
Υep, binary formats should be used when performance matters.

If the issue is debugging, writing a dump tool is a one time effort.

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Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:25AM (#15891111)
When performance matters being the operative concept. Don’t optimise prematurely and throw out all the benefits of a textual format in favour of a binary one, unless you need to.
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