Is TNet using something like Protobuf?

[Rexima]

Hi,

is TNet using something like Protobuf or Messagepack?
Or is it possible to extend TNet with one of them?

[cmifwdll]

No...? TNet comes with its own extremely extensive binary serialization. Serialization exists for every data type.

That's like asking if 7zip uses compression

[Rexima]

I ask, because the original BinaryFormatter from the .Net Framework is much slower than Protobuf or MsgPack.

[cmifwdll]

Ah, it only uses BinaryFormatter as a fallback, I think. Most of it uses BinaryWriter & BinaryReader which I think is the absolute best you can get as it's basically just raw stream operations at that point. You can take a look at TNet/Common/TNSerializer.cs for all of TNet's serialization. It's beefy.

[Rexima]

Okay thank you very much