[oll3]

> Honestly, gzipped json is likely much smaller than uncompressed protobuf.

Likely not. See here for a comparison: https://nilsmagnus.github.io/post/proto-json-sizes/

Btw, binary formats can also be compressed though it typically won't yield the same compression ratio as similar json would since there will be less repeation in the binary format.

[ninepoints]

Or, we could have done a comparison with large strings and see the opposite result. Silly benchmark is silly (or should I say, specific)