[Smtk-developers] JSON in SMTK

[David Thompson]

> ...While browsing, I come across this data serization format as protobuf developed by Google. It's four times faster than JSON and using much less space.  Is there any reason why we stick to JSON or can we move to a better data format?

JSON is a standard and widely accepted. Until flatbuffers is omnipresent, I would be hesitant to depend on it. I suspect that nlohmann's binary format is significantly faster than string parsing.

	David