Benchmark request - flexbuffers and avro about noproto HOT 2 CLOSED

Yeah, avro and noproto seem sort of analagous to protobuf and capnproto, so I thought the comparison was appropriate. Very interesting to see these results - I'm in agreement that there's nothing fundamental to avro that makes it as slow as it is, really most of avro could be zero-copy even, similar to how protobuf is.

Great to see beating out flexbuffers. Pretty cool project, I really look forward to watching it.

I also wonder if that size comparison is maybe including the schema with avro? Avro by default will attach the schema to the data, but that's not fundamental - you can remove it.

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Hey thanks for the issue, that's a good idea.

I didn't realize how much NoProto has in common with Apache Avro! I got the benchmarks together, results below:

The most popular Apache Avro library ,avro-rs is disappointing from a performance perspective. There's no reason it can't be as fast as NoProto (I studied the Avro docs). I feel like the only thing making NoProto so much faster in this case is the better Rust implementation.

I feel super proud that NoProto is beating out Flexbuffers, I didn't expect that result. I'll have these benchmarks in the next release!

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