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		steve8918 on June 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MsgPack vs. JSON: Cut your client-server exchange ... We have now come full circle in terms of how data is marshaled between client and server. I've now seen it go from XDR (the marshaling used by ONC-RPC) to XML to JSON and now to a binary form of JSON, which is basically like XDR.

troels on June 10, 2012 | [–]

I'm convinced this is a very elaborate troll.

chmike on June 10, 2012 | [–]

Msgpack is not like xdr. It's binary but more compact.

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