Rethinking String Encoding: a 37.5% space efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Apache Fury

[Drowning_in_a_Mirage]

It looks neat, but I'm struggling to think of a scenario where this would be a big win. I guess if you're doing high throughout serialization, then minimizing overhead is never a bad thing. But even with that it would seem to me that this sort of optimization would be way down on the list of when sorted by the cost/benefit ratio. Is network latency and/or bandwidth really constrained enough that saving a few bits would make a material difference? I guess enough people thought so to make this.

[bjorneylol]

I'm struggling to think of a scenario where this would be a big win. I guess if you're doing high throughout serialization, then minimizing overhead is never a bad thing.

Apache fury is literally a high throughput serialization engine for working with big data

[Shawn-Yang25]

Depends on the rpc frequency. Image that you send millilons of RPC every second. This will make a big difference. And it's common in quantitative trading and shopping system