Top Stories published by theburningmonk.com in August of 2011

Performance Test — BinaryFormatter vs Protobuf-Net

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.

When working with the BinaryFormatter class frequently, one of the things you notice is that it is really…


Performance Test — JSON serializers

NOTE: For an updated set of benchmarks, see the Benchmarks page.

For those of you who have worked with JSON data in .Net you should be familiar with the DataContractJsonSerializer class and the JavaScriptSerializer class already. Both allow…


SimpleSpeedTester

Since I do a fair bit of performance tests on random things that pique my interest, it’s only natural that I should make the task of carrying out these tests easier for myself, so over the weekend I put together a simple, no frills framework to do just that!