msgpack_stream

License: MIT

Lightweight streaming MessagePack library for C++ and Dart.

Features

  • Streaming - Encode and decode with constant memory
  • Complete - Full MessagePack spec support
  • Lightweight - Zero external dependencies
  • Fast - Minimal overhead

Language Implementations

Language Description Documentation Benchmark
C++ Zero-copy, allocation-free for embedded systems CPP.md 2-10x faster than msgpack-c
Dart Streaming support, zero dependencies DART.md Comparable to msgpack_dart

Benchmarks

100,000 iterations, Apple M3 Max.

C++ Packing (ops/sec, higher is better)

Payload msgpack_stream msgpack-c Speedup
Small (3 fields) 49.7M 11.1M 4.5x
Medium (6 fields, floats) 51.4M 5.1M 10.1x
Large (100 items) 225k 130k 1.7x

C++ Unpacking (ops/sec, higher is better)

Payload msgpack_stream msgpack-c Speedup
Small (3 fields) 23.6M 8.2M 2.9x
Medium (6 fields, floats) 9.1M 4.4M 2.1x
Large (100 items) 605k 249k 2.4x

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Flextronic GmbH

Libraries

msgpack_stream