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Re:Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript r... by CJefferson on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:26AM (#33406164)
One important thing to consider with JSON is that a lot of people really, really care about JSON performance -- optimsing parsing in assembler, and rewriting internal datastructures just to make serialising + deserialising JSON faster.

I'm sure given two implementations of equal quality protobuf would easily outperform JSON, but I can also believe the JSON implementation in (for example) v8 is very, very hard to beat.

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Re:Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript r... by jeffbee on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:54AM (#33407587)
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js#performance
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Re:Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript r... by CJefferson on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:46PM (#33408505)
I just benchmarked it on my computer -- the protobuf is twice as fast (well, 1.8x), which is good, but I don't think I'd use that as a basis for choosing the technology I use.

Of course, I might use protobuf because I prefer it in my code to JSON, and it certainly is faster (if only twice).

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