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Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance
[quick-protobuf]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf
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Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not
I actually went through all projects listed in [1] because I remember this very quirk. It turns out that there are many such libraries that have two variants of encode/decode functions, where the second variant prepends a varint length. In my brief inspection there do exist a few libraries with only the second variant (e.g. Rust quick-protobuf), which is legitimately problematic [2].
But if the project in question was indeed protobuf.js (see loeg's comments), it clearly distinguishes encode/decode vs. encodeDelimited/decodeDelimited. So I believe the project should not be blamed, and the better question would be why so many people chose to add this exact helper. Well, because Google itself also had the same helper [3]! So at this point protobuf should just standardize this simple framing format (with an explicitly different name though), instead of claiming that protobuf has no obligation to define one.
[1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/t...
[2] https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf/issues/130
[3] https://protobuf.dev/reference/java/api-docs/com/google/prot...
[4] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...
What are some alternatives?
readable - Human readable strings
riegeli - Riegeli/records is a file format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers.
decancer - A library that removes common unicode confusables/homoglyphs from strings.
protobuf - Protocol Buffers for JavaScript (& TypeScript).
ecow - Compact, clone-on-write vector and string.
nix-init - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda]
msgpack - MessagePack is an extremely efficient object serialization library. It's like JSON, but very fast and small.
flapigen-rs - Tool for connecting programs or libraries written in Rust with other languages
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
inkwell - It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely)
protobuf-conformance - A repository running the Protobuf conformance tests against various libraries