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by longlistener 5503 days ago
If you are representing this on an HTML page you'd need to Base64 encode the bugger, adding a lot more overhead.

Honestly I'm not sure why you wouldn't just simply use gzipped/JSON. My test show nearly no difference (1-2%) in performance with MessagePack, yet you get to leverage all kinds of things that already understand JSON.