High performance serialization: Java vs Google Protocol Buffers vs …?

Question

For some caching I\'m thinking of doing for an upcoming project, I\'ve been thinking about Java serialization. Namely, should it be used?

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Answer 1

Here is the off the wall suggestion of the day :-) (you just tweaked something in my head that I now want to try)...

If you can go for the whole caching solution via this it might work: Project Darkstar. It is designed as very high performance game server, specifically so that reads are fast (so good for a cache). It has Java and C APIs so I believe (thought it has been a long time since I looked at it, and I wasn't thinking of this then) that you could save objects with Java and read them back in C and vice versa.

If nothing else it'll give you something to read up on today :-)