This repository contains benchmarking code for different serialization formats across programing languages.
Sample data came from Farcaster.
- Go
- Rust
Note Smaller is better
- Benchmarks are CPU bound (no disk operations)
- OS: macOS 13.0.1
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8559U CPU @ 2.70GHz
- Protobuf: golang/protobuf
- Protobuf (gogofaster): gogoprotobuf
- FlatBuffers: google/flatbuffers v0.0.0-20230110200425-62e4d2e5b215
- Capnp: capnproto/go-capnproto2 v3.0.0-alpha.23
| Test | Protobuf | Protobuf (gogofaster) | FlatBuffers | Capnp | Capnp (packed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encode (ns/op) | 883.8 | 384.4 | 856.8 | 1709 | 2591 |
| Decode (ns/op) | 1179 | 496.2 | 18.89 | 830.8 | 1716 |
| Wire format size (bytes) | 299 | 299 | 432 | 440 | 344 |
| Wire format size, gzipped (bytes) | 323 | 323 | 406 | 392 | 368 |
- Benchmarks are CPU bound (no disk operations)
- OS: macOS 13.0.1
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8559U CPU @ 2.70GHz
- Protobuf (rust-protobuf): stepancheg/rust-protobuf 3.2.0
- Protobuf (prost): tokio-rs/prost 0.11.6
- FlatBuffers: google/flatbuffers 22.10.26
| Test | Protobuf (rust-protobuf) | Protobuf (prost) | FlatBuffers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encode (ns/op) | 704.88 | 642.90 | 878.02 |
| Decode (ns/op) | 751.61 | 1058.7 | 331.12 |
| Wire format size (bytes) | 299 | 299 | 428 |