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Welcome to Google's "protobuf"
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/... -
@atheist protobuf is compressed so very slow to write. I don't need to copy my buffers so size doesn't matter as much as serialization and deserialization speed
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Also... Double check about the compression? https://medium.com/@david_turner/...
It encodes ints to use fewer bytes (same way MessagePack does) but doesn't compress as far as I can tell -
Perhaps https://capnproto.org/ might be what your are looking for?
I finally got it working! Now I have a foundation for a kernel and an uefi bootloader written in pure Rust
To...
I keep forgetting what a massive pain in the ass it is to use dynamic libraries in anything other than C. I'm genuinely contemplating defining a serialization-based API and talking to plugins with a blob->blob function pair.
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