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Biniou (pronounced "be new") is a binary data format designed for speed,
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safety, ease of use and backward compatibility as protocols evolve. Biniou is
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vastly equivalent to JSON in terms of functionality but allows implementations
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several times faster (4 times faster than yojson), with 25-35% space savings.
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Biniou data can be decoded into human-readable form without knowledge of type
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definitions except for field and variant names which are represented by 31-bit
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hashes. A program named bdump is provided for routine visualization of biniou
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data files.
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