Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing

[jsnell]

See also the discussion on the technical description last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591605

(IMO much more interesting article than this announcement, and that probably should have gotten more attention than it did.)

[dang]

Thanks! That one was recent enough that I think we can re-up it. I'll put a link to this thread in there, so people can read both.

[ManBeardPc]

Interesting approach using a JIT compiler. It says compilation is slow, is there a way to persist the compiled code and load it later (for example for CLIs or faster redeployments)?

[paulddraper]

It's called AoT....

[the_duke]

The delta to the performance of C++/Rust Protobuf implementations would be interesting.

[nateb2022]

Even before Hyperpb, Go was already very competitive, e.g. this article from last year: https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2024-04-09-rust-protobuf-perf...

[mwigdahl]

Really missed a great naming opportunity with "superpb" (pronounced as "superb").

[cryptonector]

Why not coin hyperb as the hyper equivalent of super's superb?

[JoshTriplett]

I'd expect the current name to be pronounced like the first part of "hyperbole", which doesn't have nearly the same positive connotations, yeah.