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protobuf
Protocol Buffers for JavaScript & TypeScript. Widely used, fast, conformant, and versatile.
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protobuf-es
Protocol Buffers for ECMAScript. The only JavaScript Protobuf library that is fully-compliant with Protobuf conformance tests.
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protoc-gen-validate
Discontinued Protocol Buffer Validation - replaced by https://github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate
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osm
Discontinued Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
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Let's GET perfy
Some fast research revealed some libs that might help like pbf
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Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data
it's been about 3 years, but in Grafana at the time we were using something like ArrowJS + Arrow Flight + protobuf.js and then render the datasets into dashboards on Canvas, especially for streaming at ~20hz.
when i benchmarked the fastest lib to simply convert the protobuf decode (https://github.com/mapbox/pbf), it was 5x slower than native JSON parsing in browsers for dataframe-like structures (e.g. a few dozen 2k-long arrays of floats).
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Outperform Protobuf.js with fixed-size encoding
does it beat https://github.com/mapbox/pbf ?
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Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime we all deserve
at least in the frontend (without WASM), it depends.
i tested https://github.com/mapbox/pbf and while it was faster for deep/complex structs vs an unoptimized/repetative JSON blob, it was slower at shallow structs and flat arrays of stuff. if you spend a bit of time encode stuff as flat arrays to avoid mem alloc, JSON parsing wins by a lot since it goes through highly optimized C or assembly, while decoding protobuf in the JIT does not.
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A standalone protobuf to typescript(for deno) code generator
The runtime is taken from mapbox/pbf (with basic type definitions)
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Stats
Basic pbf repo stats
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mapbox/pbf is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of pbf is JavaScript.
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