https://github.com/mleku/realy/blob/dev/event/binarymarshal.go
this is my binary encoder and this is the benchmarks for it:
https://github.com/mleku/nostrbench
goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/mleku/nostrbench
cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G with Radeon Graphics
BenchmarkEncodingEasyJSON-12 687991 1790 ns/op 1631 B/op 6 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodingEasyJSON-12 676521 1777 ns/op 1413 B/op 16 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodingGob-12 184216 5982 ns/op 4872 B/op 43 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodingGob-12 55344 21500 ns/op 10061 B/op 236 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodingFiatjafBinary-12 99108 11383 ns/op 73789 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodingFiatjafBinary-12 1370816 863.9 ns/op 769 B/op 10 allocs/op
BenchmarkMlekuMarshalJSON-12 1000000 1149 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkMlekuUnmarshalJSON-12 609270 1951 ns/op 684 B/op 13 allocs/op
BenchmarkMlekuMarshalBinary-12 2982892 402.2 ns/op 600 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkMlekuUnmarshalBinary-12 1571326 767.5 ns/op 1096 B/op 14 allocs/op
as you can see, it is as fast as it can be and you can see reading the encoder that it's 250 lines of code to implement it
you can also see that my custom made JSON codec is only about 3x slower and faster than the easyjson that has a massive 1000 lines of generated source code to enable it
when you understand those numbers there you can see why i am skeptical there is really any need for it, it's the least expensive operation
but what i will point out is that between the json and my binary encoding, part of the reason why it is so fast is because my runtime encoding also uses binary instead of hex, there is only a hex en/decode step to go to the wire
