MessagePack is great at serializing data quickly.
Snappy is great at compressing data quickly.
Packsnap serializes datastructures using MessagePack and Snappy.
Packsnap.pack("a simple string")
=> "\x10<\xAFa simple string"
Packsnap.pack(["an array", 3])
=> "\v(\x92\xA8an array\x03"
Packsnap.pack("long key" * 15)
=> "{(\xDA\x00xlong key\xFE\b\x00\xBE\b\x00"
# And a totally useless benchmark (Macbook Air 11")
Benchmark.realtime { 1_000_000.times { Packsnap.pack("value") } }
=> 1.654603
MessagePack code copyright 2012 FURUHASHI Sadayuki
Additions copyright Burke Libbey
License: Apache License, Version 2.0