Open Source · MarkTechPost ·
Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed
Yandex open-sourced YaFF, a zero-copy wire format for the Protobuf ecosystem that keeps .proto files as the source of truth while changing in-memory layout. The post describes four layouts and reports that the Flat Layout reads within 1.2x of a raw C++ struct, with 10-20% CPU savings in a production advertising recomme