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Comment by oll3

> Honestly, gzipped json is likely much smaller than uncompressed protobuf.

Likely not. See here for a comparison: https://nilsmagnus.github.io/post/proto-json-sizes/

Btw, binary formats can also be compressed though it typically won't yield the same compression ratio as similar json would since there will be less repeation in the binary format.

parent oll3 4 years ago

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