> > That said, the ubjson spec is starting to look reasonable and capable > to be an alternative content-type produced by CouchDB. If someone were > to write a patch I'd review it quite enthusiastically.
Just FYI, there's an experimental support for MessagePack by Tim Anglade: https://github.com/timanglade/couchdb/commits/msgpack I thought it might be interesting in this debate... Tim says it improves performance quite a bit: http://blog.cloudant.com/optimizing-couchdb-calls-by-99-percent/ (Tim, if you're reading this, thank's for the excellent talk!) LT
