Game On! - Flatbuffers

Data serialization is vital to all modern games, but choosing the wrong format can cause bloated files that take longer to load. Flatbuffers are a data serialization library that focuses on creating the smallest serialized files with the fastest load time possible.

[@GoogleDevelopers]

Colt McAnlis presents today's episode of Game On! Data serialization is vital to all modern games, but choosing the wrong format can cause bloated files that take longer to load. Flatbuffers are a data serialization library that focuses on creating the smallest serialized files with the fastest load time possible. Game On! - Flatbuffers #games

[@temporalg]

Actually, Protobufs will usually produce smaller files. There's a speed/space trade-off in binary encodings and FlatBuffers is more on the speed side.

[@ZainZain-st7zd]

السلام

[@nitins7103]

Thank you very much

[@ThePandaGuitar]

Awesome video!

[@Netryon]

But isn't it how a compiler or a runtime works, because basically it's text strings converted to different syntax between different languages let's say PHP to C++? It's easier to understand it in PHP rather than in C# how a conversion between different data types works, if it's readable and not a binary. Tho it could be that it isn't how it works. Users need fast internet for this task and a change in what is visible to a user when it's streaming.

[@anithamannem9880]

Could you please do a video how to integrate it in Android. Because converting the files to flatc i am unable to do it.

[@colek42]

Lets get a stable Python implementation!

[@noedelacruz3455]

Why?

[@slimbouguerra7111]

Wondering did you guys compare this to the binary format of Json the smiley format github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/tree/master/smile ? that will be more fair to compare to i guess

[@TashingaPemhiwa]

Blah.json @1:35?

[@WarSquadz]

What's the speed compare to MessagePack?

[@noedelacruz3455]

github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks , if I'm reading this correctly MessagePack is faster. also there is google.github.io/flatbuffers/md__benchmarks.html

[@mhmdjaouhari]

Waiting for this to become a standart! :D

[@TheRealAfroRick]

Isn't this a predecessor to protocol buffers?

[@rutabega306]

I think other way around