Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers

Re:Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers by rw on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:57PM (#9984765)

I liked this writeup. I'm curious how much this improved battery life for a typical user.

FWIW, I help maintain FlatBuffers for Go and Python. I'm happy to answer any questions I can.

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Re:Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers by TwoBit on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:55PM (#9985702)

I didn't like the writeup, because I can't tell how the layout works from his bad description of it. The author makes that classic mistake of technical writing in which the writing assumes the reader already knows what they are talking about.

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Re:Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers by jmtulloss on Friday July 31, 2015 @09:39PM (#9985478)

I ran across Cap'n Proto (https://capnproto.org/) a while back and at a glance it seems to do something similar. Is that true? Are you familiar with the tradeoffs between the two?

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Re:Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers by zarvox on Friday July 31, 2015 @09:56PM (#9985530)

Relevant thread from the designers of Cap'n Proto and Flatbuffers from around the date of the Flatbuffers release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901991

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Re:Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers by spearo77 on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:30PM (#9985632)

And from that thread, here's the Cap'n Proto author comparing Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE -- https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-...

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