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+It's like JSON.
+but fast and small.
+MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange
+data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller.
+Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require
+only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves.