README.md

Serializers Benchmarks

This folder contains benchmarks of the most popular serializers.

Serializers used (latest stable versions)

• XML
  • XmlSerializer 4.3.0
• JSON
  • DataContractJsonSerializer 4.3.0
  • Jil 2.17.0
  • JSON.NET 12.0.2
  • Utf8Json 1.3.7
• Binary
  • BinaryFormatter 4.3.0
  • MessagePack 1.7.3.7
  • protobuff-net 2.4.0

Missing: ProtoBuff from Google and BOND from MS

Data Contracts

Data Contracts were copied from a real Web App - allReady to mimic real world scenarios.

• LoginViewModel - class, 3 properties
• Location - class, 9 properties
• IndexViewModel - class, nested class + list of 20 Events (8 properties each)
• MyEventsListerViewModel - class, 3 lists of complex types, each type contains another list of complex types

Design Decisions

1. We want to compare "apples to apples", so the benchmarks are divided into few groups: ToStream, FromStream, ToString, FromString.
2. Stream benchmarks write to pre-allocated MemoryStream, so the allocated bytes columns include only the cost of serialization.