[zeromq-dev] what are the best practices to send complex objects?

[Ron Elliott]

I'm not the OP however would it be possible for you to explain why you
chose MessagePack over ProtoBufs? I currently use ProtoBufs myself and
don't have any issues with it however I think this would be interesting to
know
On Jul 17, 2012 2:18 PM, "Andrzej Dworak" <Andrzej.Dworak at cern.ch> wrote:

>  Hi,
> I did some extensive testing of serialization libraries (tested C++ and
> Java implementations) more or less 3 months ago. Two products that I liked
> the most were MessagePack and Google Protocol Buffers. For my case, where I
> need to have self-describing serialization, I've chosen MessagePack. The
> requirements were quite high as this is going to be used by one of a core
> systems at CERN to operate LHC and other accelerators. So far no problems
> with MP, it's a great product, well, the same as ZeroMQ :)
> Cheers,
> Andrzej
>
>
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> zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org] on behalf of aalok sood [
> aalok at ideadevice.com]
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> *Subject:* Re: [zeromq-dev] what are the best practices to send complex
> objects?
>
>  If you are **really** concerned about performance, I suggest you have
> your own protocol that both sides understand.
> This way you send data as it is, the remote side would know how to
> interpret it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Cem Karan <cfkaran2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been playing with MessagePack (http://msgpack.org/) for
>> serialization and BLOSC (http://blosc.pytables.org/trac) for
>> compression.  They seem to work pretty well together.  How fast is fast?
>>  BLOSC is designed to move data around in memory faster than memcpy() is
>> able to do it, and I haven't had any complaints about how fast MessagePack
>> works (OTOH, I'm I/O bound, so I tend not to hit any limits).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cem Karan
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2012, at 3:37 AM, anti_tenzor wrote:
>>
>> > Hello, all,
>> >
>> > I'd like to use ZMQ to send complex objects between applications (using
>> > CLRZMQ c# wrapper). Since it is possible to send byte[] arrays only,
>> > I am forced to implement some serialization-deserialization mechanism.
>> >
>> > But the hole idea is to be as fast as possible! So it looks like this
>> > algo should be:
>> > 1. Extremely fast
>> > 2. Produce very compact byte arrays
>> >
>> > Could you please suggest some best practices or libraries (.net), that
>> > meets these requirements?
>> >
>> > How do you send complex ojects via ZMQ in real-life applications?
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance!
>> >
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