Serialization Benchmarks

This is a series of benchmarks showing the speed, size, and garbage of various serialization methods.

Results

Method	rawData	Mean	Error	StdDev	Serialized Size	Serialized [gzip]	Serialized [gzip_b64]	Gen 0	Gen 1	Gen 2	Allocated
FlatBuffers	TBS [1]	1,338.4us	12.67us	11.85us	253.98KB	80.13KB	106.84KB	72.2656	70.3125	70.3125	293.12KB
Protobuf	TBS [1]	1,004.9us	15.34us	14.35us	126.71KB	42.33KB	56.43KB	78.1250	39.0625	39.0625	986.37KB
NewtonsoftJson	TBS [1]	4,072.8us	46.98us	43.95us	398.32KB	59.15KB	78.87KB	421.8750	367.1875	328.1250	2779.27KB
SystemTextJson	TBS [1]	1,565.6us	15.80us	14.01us	398.32KB	59.21KB	78.95KB	347.6563	330.0781	330.0781	1509.09KB
MessagePackString	TBS [1]	561.1us	8.64us	8.08us	409.49KB	56.39KB	75.19KB	124.0234	124.0234	124.0234	819.82KB
MessagePackInt	TBS [1]	438.5us	5.62us	5.26us	96.93KB	49.95KB	66.60KB	30.7617	30.7617	30.7617	507.22KB
MemoryPack	TBS [1]	357.0us	6.62us	6.19us	156.28KB	45.34KB	60.46KB	49.8047	49.8047	49.8047	566.58KB
BinaryWriter	TBS [1]	313.8us	4.21us	3.94us	78.14KB	42.76KB	57.01KB	41.5039	41.5039	41.5039	334.27KB
FlatBuffers	TBS [32]	1,397.1us	9.66us	9.03us	566.52KB	329.58KB	439.44KB	140.6250	138.6719	138.6719	605.67KB
Protobuf	TBS [32]	1,103.2us	15.75us	14.73us	429.48KB	272.60KB	363.46KB	158.2031	130.8594	107.4219	1289.98KB
NewtonsoftJson	TBS [32]	4,345.5us	69.14us	64.67us	701.08KB	282.39KB	376.52KB	625.0000	570.3125	492.1875	4299.79KB
SystemTextJson	TBS [32]	1,825.2us	32.74us	32.15us	701.08KB	282.21KB	376.28KB	435.5469	417.9688	417.9688	2417.04KB
MessagePackString	TBS [32]	684.6us	13.29us	17.28us	722.02KB	289.92KB	386.57KB	189.4531	175.7813	165.0391	1132.82KB
MessagePackInt	TBS [32]	534.6us	7.63us	7.14us	409.46KB	274.55KB	366.07KB	124.0234	124.0234	124.0234	819.79KB
MemoryPack	TBS [32]	437.3us	6.05us	5.66us	459.04KB	268.76KB	358.35KB	138.1836	125.4883	113.2813	869.85KB
BinaryWriter	TBS [32]	438.0us	8.64us	10.62us	380.91KB	266.48KB	355.30KB	316.4063	309.0820	308.5938	1405.16KB

Notes

• For TBS [##], ## represents the length of the strings used.
• The exact Mean/Error/StdDev numbers aren't important, the relative differences are
• flatc is copied from the releases section of the official git repository.
• protoc is copied from the releases section of the official git repository