"5 times faster" reminds me of Cap'n Proto's claim: in benchmarks, Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers: https://capnproto.org/

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7777332215 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my experience capn proto is much less ergonomic.

	▲	IshKebab an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree. It might be faster if you don't actually deserialise the data into native structs but then your codebase will be filled with fairly horrific CapnProto C++ code.

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gf000 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, cap'n'proto is written by the same person who created protobuf, so they are legit (and that somewhat jokish claim is simply that it requires no parsing).

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Sesse__ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I mean, cap'n'proto is written by the same person who created protobuf

Notably, Protobuf 2, a rewrite of Protobuf 1. Protobuf 1 was created by Sanjay Ghemawat, I believe.

	▲	7e 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Google loves to reinvent shit because they didn't understand it. And to get promo. In this case, ASN.1. And protobufs are so inefficient that they drive up latency and datacenter costs, so they were a step backwards. Good job, Sanjay.