Performant Entity Serialization: BSON vs MessagePack (vs JSON)

Question

Recently I\'ve found MessagePack, an alternative binary serialization format to Google\'s Protocol Buffers and JSON which also out

Answer 1

Quick test shows minified JSON is deserialized faster than binary MessagePack. In the tests Article.json is 550kb minified JSON, Article.mpack is 420kb MP-version of it. May be an implementation issue of course.

MessagePack:

//test_mp.js
var msg = require('msgpack');
var fs = require('fs');

var article = fs.readFileSync('Article.mpack');

for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
    msg.unpack(article);    
}

JSON:

// test_json.js
var msg = require('msgpack');
var fs = require('fs');

var article = fs.readFileSync('Article.json', 'utf-8');

for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
    JSON.parse(article);
}

So times are:

Anarki:Downloads oleksii$ time node test_mp.js 

real    2m45.042s
user    2m44.662s
sys     0m2.034s

Anarki:Downloads oleksii$ time node test_json.js 

real    2m15.497s
user    2m15.458s
sys     0m0.824s

So space is saved, but faster? No.

Tested versions:

Anarki:Downloads oleksii$ node --version
v0.8.12
Anarki:Downloads oleksii$ npm list msgpack
/Users/oleksii
└── msgpack@0.1.7