On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:55 PM, <lars.kn...@nokia.com> wrote: >>Is this a standard binary format of JSON, or something of your own devise? > > It's something I wrote. I wanted it to be something that you can simply > mmap from a file and use without ever having to parse anything to make > saving and restoring of json objects as cheap as possible. > > The problem with bson is that it's a streaming format that still requires > parsing and as such was unsuitable for some of the use cases I have.
BSON's specification is also a little less generic (& tied to its origins) than I'd like. Two small examples: having a concept of what a 'symbol' is instead of just sticking to standard js types... and then there's things like 'timestamp' - which the specification notes is a "special internal type used by mongodb replication and sharding". Things like that are, in my opinion, not that great. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
