No it does not; there is no “compression” as such specified in the protobuf spec; however, it does (by default) use “varint encoding” – a variable-length encoding for integer data that means small values use less space; so 0-127 take 1 byte plus the header. Note that varint by itself goes pretty loopy for negative … Read more
Because it is maybe of interest for someone I decided to do this post about What does the binary format of serialized .NET objects look like and how can we interpret it correctly? I have based all my research on the .NET Remoting: Binary Format Data Structure specification. Example class: To have a working example, … Read more
The reason a binary formatter is able to deserialize directly to an interface type is because when an object is originally serialized to a binary stream metadata containing type and assembly information is stuck in with the object data. This means that when the binary formatter deserializes the object it knows its type, builds the … Read more