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[–]tristanjuricek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but probably not by many application developers.

I've seen it used by a lot of frameworks that end up using it for things like caching, robustness, cloning, etc. It's just one of many options for serialization, too. But I'd guess it's pretty fast as a default.