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Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by film42 on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:01AM (#5538849)
Moot says they use JSON-RPC because a standard REST framework is not suitable.

Can anyone shed some light on how big of a performance boost JSON-RPC provides when dealing with things like notifications?

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Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by tipiirai on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:06AM (#5538880)
JSON-RPC is not about performance. A RPC protocol just makes more sense for full-duplex communication where both sending and receiving end can send messages to each other at any time. REST is inherently a request / response pattern and is not designed to build these kinds of "real time" applications. It's about your system architecture. Better to use the right tools for the job.
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