What's the fastest Serialization mechanism for c#?

Question

This for small payloads.

I am looking to achieve 1,000,000,000 per 100ms.

The standard BinaryFormatter is very slow. The DataContractSerializer is slow than Bina

Answer 1

If you don't want to take the time to implement a comprehensive explicit serialization/de-serialization mechanism, try this: http://james.newtonking.com/json/help/html/JsonNetVsDotNetSerializers.htm ...

In my usage with large objects (1GB+ when serialized to disk) I find that the file generated by the NewtonSoft library is 4.5 times smaller and takes 6 times fewer seconds to process than when using the BinaryFormatter.