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21st April 2010 - Link Blog

The MessagePack Project. A cross-language efficient binary-based serialization library—“It’s like JSON, but very fast and small”. Claims to outperform protocol buffers for at least some benchmarks.

Posted 21st April 2010 at 10:55 pm

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