Will Transit support encoding using msgpack in ClojureScript?

Question

If one wanted to send binary data over, say a websocket connection, transit/msgpack would seem a good choice?

API docs indicate only json/json-verbose
https://cognitect.github.io/transit-cljs/cognitect.transit.html#var-writer

Is it simply that it hasn't been implemented (and is awaiting a volunteer) or is there a technical problem?

Answer 1

Is there a high performance msgpack implementation available in the browser? json was the priority for js/cljs in Transit because there are very high performance native json parsers available in the browser.

Comments

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript seems like has comparable `encode` performance and better `decode` performance than plain JSON.

Edit: the performance seems like comparable only on nodejs, in browser encode is orders of maginitude slower.

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Link to perf comparison?

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The perf comparison is on readme. But as I noted/edited in previous comment, seems like this performance is nodejs specific, on my own benchmarks on browser,  the performance difference is considerable...