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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:48:51+00:00

I’m looking into a mechanism for serialize data to be passed over a socket

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I’m looking into a mechanism for serialize data to be passed over a socket or shared-memory in a language-independent mechanism. I’m reluctant to use XML since this data is going to be very structured, and encoding/decoding speed is vital. Having a good C API that’s liberally licensed is important, but ideally there should be support for a ton of other languages. I’ve looked at google’s protocol buffers and ASN.1. Am I on the right track? Is there something better? Should I just implement my own packed structure and not look for some standard?

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  1. Given your requirements, I would go with Google Protocol Buffers. It sounds like it’s ideally suited to your application.

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