[MS_Buys_Upvotes]

Thanks! You and the others are right: I didn't know JSON was serialized.

I can see why something in binary would be faster than structured text (think assembler vs Python).

Thanks again.

[coldtea]

>I didn't know JSON was serialized.

Think of it like this: anytime you get stuff from the memory of your program (arrays, lists, strings, etc) and export it in a textual or binary format that can be exchanged between programs, moved over the network, saved to a file, etc, that's serialization.