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Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by zbentley on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:40AM (#15892144)
Does CBOR support lazy/partial deserialization? It's not a make-or-break feature, but the ability to pluck out individual fields from large MessagePack documents without deserializing the whole thing has been a significant performance/memory savings for me many times.

I haven't played with flatbuffers, but it probably supports this as well, given its design. Are there other binary protocols that have first-class (i.e. present with a good API in the client libraries for all major languages) support for lazy/partial deserialization?

Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by js8 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:13PM (#15892949)
CBOR is very similar to MsgPack, so yes (if you design the schema well enough).