The beginning led me to think that this might be talking about something like Cap’n’Proto where the format is made in such a way where you can work with in in-memory without any (de)serialization. Though, formats like that have some toughness to deal with, like the fact that Cap’n’Proto needs to have 5 different types of pointers to be able to be encoded efficiently while being easily modifiable in memory.
The beginning led me to think that this might be talking about something like Cap’n’Proto where the format is made in such a way where you can work with in in-memory without any (de)serialization. Though, formats like that have some toughness to deal with, like the fact that Cap’n’Proto needs to have 5 different types of pointers to be able to be encoded efficiently while being easily modifiable in memory.