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		bastih on June 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization libr... I always felt that the RPC should live in an extra project to not distract from the format part.

kentonv on June 17, 2014 [–]

They are compiled as separate libraries, so you can use the serialization layer without linking in the RPC layer.

But if anything it was the serialization that distracted me from the RPC. Cap'n Proto was originally (briefly) a capability-based RPC system on top of Protobufs. :)

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