Nicholas Fraser

I'm very much opposed to introducing packed arrays. The reason MessagePack is so simple is because each individual element is dynamically typed. If you introduce packed arrays, then you have...

We're not seriously considering merging #248, are we? What on earth is the use case for a rational number type? This is 1960s thinking, where everyone thought programming languages needed...

The reason you're seeing such a large size for MessagePack is because this data is mostly real numbers which you are converting to doubles rather than floats, even though the...

I'm finding this slow as well. I'm on latest Arch Linux, nothing special about my configuration, and yet: ```sh $ time _pyenv_virtualenv_hook real 0m0.220s user 0m0.160s sys 0m0.070s ``` This...

Release [v1.1.1](https://github.com/ludocode/mpack/releases/tag/v1.1.1) is out. Sorry for the delay. I'll leave this open because I still want to improve the unit tests for this.

In my experience, when people complain about size differences between JSON and MessagePack, 99% of the time it's because the data is full of real numbers that get encoded as...

The only purpose of the context is for callbacks like fill, flush, etc. `mpack_reader_init_filename()` installs its own fill and destroy callbacks so it uses the context. The documentation of `mpack_reader_set_context()`...

Sorry about this. It looks like a bug in the CMake build where it is building a dependency twice. Can you try the latest development snapshot? I removed CMake entirely...