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 <h1 id="flatbuffers_benchmarks">C++ Benchmarks</h1>
 <p>Comparing against other serialization solutions, running on Windows 7
 64bit. We use the LITE runtime for Protocol Buffers (less code / lower
 overhead), Rapid JSON (one of the fastest C++ JSON parsers around),
 and pugixml, also one of the fastest XML parsers.</p>
 <p>We also compare against code that doesn't use a serialization library
 at all (the column "Raw structs"), which is what you get if you write
 hardcoded code that just writes structs. This is the fastest possible,
 but of course is not cross platform nor has any kind of forwards /
 backwards compatibility.</p>
 <p>We compare against Flatbuffers with the binary wire format (as
 intended), and also with JSON as the wire format with the optional JSON
 parser (which, using a schema, parses JSON into a binary buffer that can
 then be accessed as before).</p>
 <p>The benchmark object is a set of about 10 objects containing an array, 4
 strings, and a large variety of int/float scalar values of all sizes,
 meant to be representative of game data, e.g. a scene format.</p>
 <table>
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th></th>
 <th>FlatBuffers (binary)</th>
 <th>Protocol Buffers LITE</th>
 <th>Rapid JSON</th>
 <th>FlatBuffers (JSON)</th>
 <th>pugixml</th>
 <th>Raw structs</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>Decode + Traverse + Dealloc (1 million times, seconds)</td>
 <td>0.08</td>
 <td>302</td>
 <td>583</td>
 <td>105</td>
 <td>196</td>
 <td>0.02</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Decode / Traverse / Dealloc (breakdown)</td>
 <td>0 / 0.08 / 0</td>
 <td>220 / 0.15 / 81</td>
 <td>294 / 0.9 / 287</td>
 <td>70 / 0.08 / 35</td>
 <td>41 / 3.9 / 150</td>
 <td>0 / 0.02 / 0</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Encode (1 million times, seconds)</td>
 <td>3.2</td>
 <td>185</td>
 <td>650</td>
 <td>169</td>
 <td>273</td>
 <td>0.15</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Wire format size (normal / zlib, bytes)</td>
 <td>344 / 220</td>
 <td>228 / 174</td>
 <td>1475 / 322</td>
 <td>1029 / 298</td>
 <td>1137 / 341</td>
 <td>312 / 187</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Memory needed to store decoded wire (bytes / blocks)</td>
 <td>0 / 0</td>
 <td>760 / 20</td>
 <td>65689 / 4</td>
 <td>328 / 1</td>
 <td>34194 / 3</td>
 <td>0 / 0</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Transient memory allocated during decode (KB)</td>
 <td>0</td>
 <td>1</td>
 <td>131</td>
 <td>4</td>
 <td>34</td>
 <td>0</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Generated source code size (KB)</td>
 <td>4</td>
 <td>61</td>
 <td>0</td>
 <td>4</td>
 <td>0</td>
 <td>0</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Field access in handwritten traversal code</td>
 <td>typed accessors</td>
 <td>typed accessors</td>
 <td>manual error checking</td>
 <td>typed accessors</td>
 <td>manual error checking</td>
 <td>typed but no safety</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Library source code (KB)</td>
 <td>15</td>
 <td>some subset of 3800</td>
 <td>87</td>
 <td>43</td>
 <td>327</td>
 <td>0</td>
 </tr>
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 <h3 id="some-other-serialization-systems-we-compared-against-but-did-not-benchmark-yet-in-rough-order-of-applicability">Some other serialization systems we compared against but did not benchmark (yet), in rough order of applicability:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Cap'n'Proto promises to reduce Protocol Buffers much like FlatBuffers does,
     though with a more complicated binary encoding and less flexibility (no
     optional fields to allow deprecating fields or serializing with missing
     fields for which defaults exist).
     It currently also isn't fully cross-platform portable (lack of VS support).</li>
 <li>msgpack: has very minimal forwards/backwards compatibility support when used
     with the typed C++ interface. Also lacks VS2010 support.</li>
 <li>Thrift: very similar to Protocol Buffers, but appears to be less efficient,
     and have more dependencies.</li>
 <li>YAML: a superset of JSON and otherwise very similar. Used by e.g. Unity.</li>
 <li>C# comes with built-in serialization functionality, as used by Unity also.
     Being tied to the language, and having no automatic versioning support
     limits its applicability.</li>
 <li>Project Anarchy (the free mobile engine by Havok) comes with a serialization
     system, that however does no automatic versioning (have to code around new
     fields manually), is very much tied to the rest of the engine, and works
     without a schema to generate code (tied to your C++ class definition).</li>
 </ul>
 <h3 id="code-for-benchmarks">Code for benchmarks</h3>
 <p>Code for these benchmarks sits in <code>benchmarks/</code> in git branch <code>benchmarks</code>.
 It sits in its own branch because it has submodule dependencies that the main
 project doesn't need, and the code standards do not meet those of the main
 project. Please read <code>benchmarks/cpp/README.txt</code> before working with the code.</p>
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