Comparison with devalue

[aleclarson]

Hi, could you explain the differences between this and devalue? Thanks

[lxsmnsyc]

There's a lot of serializer libraries so I didn't document any comparison to any but to answer your question, it all comes down to performance and features.

Seroval offers a lot more features when it comes to serializable values and modes (streaming and async), whereas devalue doesn't do this out-of-the-box. See https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/blob/main/docs/serialization.md and https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md

Perf-wise, seroval runs, at most, twice as fast as devalue, you can check the benchmarks here: https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/blob/main/benchmark/results/csv/simple-object%20to%20string.csv

There's a lot more to flesh out, but I just described the more obvious ones.