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Protocol Buffers vs FlatBuffers for High-Performance Game Networking

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2y ago · Sep 27, 2023 2:52 PM

FlatBuffers enables reading serialized hierarchical binary data directly from memory without unpacking/parsing step.

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2y ago · Sep 27, 2023 5:05 PM

Protobuf requires an allocation/deserialization pass into C++ objects, whereas FlatBuffers provides zero-copy access.

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2y ago · Sep 27, 2023 10:05 PM

For high-frequency tick updates (60-128Hz), FlatBuffers reduced our server CPU deserialization load significantly.

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