Correct. MessagePack comes out significantly ahead for small messages, otherwise it's nearly a wash.
> CBOR is probably the closest to a widely adopted "pure" adaptation of JSON
It adds (1) binary data (2) numeric variants including big integers (3) timestamps (4) tagged/semantic types.
I.e. it adds quite a bit. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Browser implementation would be great, but I'm skeptical.
Correct. MessagePack comes out significantly ahead for small messages, otherwise it's nearly a wash.
> CBOR is probably the closest to a widely adopted "pure" adaptation of JSON
It adds (1) binary data (2) numeric variants including big integers (3) timestamps (4) tagged/semantic types.
I.e. it adds quite a bit. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Browser implementation would be great, but I'm skeptical.