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Re:JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor by resnamen on Saturday October 08, 2011 @08:38PM (#3089264)
If going with this means adopting a specialized library with its own format, sticking with a fixed schema, and giving up human readable formatting, why not go whole hog and use protocol buffers instead? It'd be cheaper to convert and store.
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Re:JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor by jacobolus on Saturday October 08, 2011 @08:46PM (#3089279)
Yeah, exactly. On the other hand, are there any good JavaScript implementations of serialization formats like Thrift/Protobufs?

Any new project like this that wants to be taken seriously should really provide metrics comparing both wire size and decode speed (ideally in 2 or 3 browsers) versus (at least):

  * Raw JSON
  * Gzipped JSON
  * Protobufs or some similar format
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Re:JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor by mdonahoe on Saturday October 08, 2011 @08:43PM (#3089276)
Why do people keep doing this to JSON?
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