Comment by kccqzy
8 hours ago
That’s the old school of thought. These days, designers of newer serialization formats realize that designing a more compact format doesn’t really buy much on modern CPUs and modern networks. See for example Cap’n Proto (whose inventor, kentonv, also works at Cloudflare) and flatbuffers.
That's also the ancient school of thought, before compaction was viable and before portability was needed.