Comment by nemo1618
8 months ago
There are two ways to look at this.
First is that, if the parsing library for your codec includes a compiler, VM, and PGO, your codec must be extremely cursed and you should take a step back and think about your life.
Second is that, if the parsing library for your codec includes a compiler, VM, and PGO, your codec must be wildly popular and adds enormous value.
If you want to do something several hundreds of billions of times per day, you probably want to do it very efficiently.
Or, you know, several hundreds of billions of times per second...
I'm not sure which part you're objecting to.
If it's compilation at run-time, then I agree: it should be done at build time. But in this case it's really not a big deal.
If you're objecting to needing a compiler, then... you're not even wrong.
You can also prase Protobuf on the very low end, if you don't need super high throughput
https://jpa.kapsi.fi/nanopb/