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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:25:08+00:00

in terms of both parsing (serializing, deserializing) and sending packets over the network is

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in terms of both parsing (serializing, deserializing) and sending packets over the network is there any good estimation of performance differences between binary and xml serialization?

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  1. Nope.

    It depends highly on what sort of data is inside the XML document itself. If you have a lot of structured data, the overhead for XML will be large. For example, if your data looks like:

    <person>   <name>Dave</dave>   <ssn>000-00-0000</ssn>   <email1>xxxxxx/email1> </person> ...

    You’ll have a lot more overhead than if you have an XML document that looks like:

    <book name='bible'>  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   Now the earth was formless and empty ...   And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. </book>

    So it’s not really a fair question. It depends highly on the data YOU intend to send, and how/if you’re compressing it.

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