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I liked this writeup. I'm curious how much this improved battery life for a typical user.

FWIW, I help maintain FlatBuffers for Go and Python. I'm happy to answer any questions I can.

I didn't like the writeup, because I can't tell how the layout works from his bad description of it. The author makes that classic mistake of technical writing in which the writing assumes the reader already knows what they are talking about.

I ran across Cap'n Proto (https://capnproto.org/) a while back and at a glance it seems to do something similar. Is that true? Are you familiar with the tradeoffs between the two?

Relevant thread from the designers of Cap'n Proto and Flatbuffers from around the date of the Flatbuffers release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901991

And from that thread, here's the Cap'n Proto author comparing Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE -- https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-...

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