A Faster Serialization Library Based on Compile-time Reflection and C++ 20
summary
A serialization library called struct pack uses compile-time reflection in C++20 to avoid per-field type tags, generate a compile-time MD5 type hash placed at the front of the binary, and special-case trivially copyable and contiguous containers to memcpy whole payloads. Benchmarks claim about 3× faster than msgpack and protobuf and up to hundreds of times faster for trivial-copy scenes; the implementation is open source and the approach succeeds on the presented test cases.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:22Other Serialization Libraries
- 3:45structpack
- 11:03type checking
- 13:41hash code
- 20:25testing
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