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Or "I'm making an educated guess". Otherwise how can you get truly surprised when things turn out to be different in the real world :-)

I'd also guess it would be more expensive during decoding. So let's compare that with some real data:

https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki (old wiki but with some graphs https://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Bench...)

it turns out that state of the art JSON serialisers aren't so bad after all, especially the serialisation.

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