zlog/internal/cbor

Reference:

CBOR Encoding is described in RFC7049

Comparison of JSON vs CBOR

Two main areas of reduction are:

1. CPU usage to write a log msg
2. Size (in bytes) of log messages.

CPU Usage savings are below:

name                                    JSON time/op    CBOR time/op   delta
Info-32                                   15.3ns ± 1%    11.7ns ± 3%  -23.78%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)      
ContextFields-32                          16.2ns ± 2%    12.3ns ± 3%  -23.97%  (p=0.000 n=9+9)       
ContextAppend-32                          6.70ns ± 0%    6.20ns ± 0%   -7.44%  (p=0.000 n=9+9)       
LogFields-32                              66.4ns ± 0%    24.6ns ± 2%  -62.89%  (p=0.000 n=10+9)      
LogArrayObject-32                          911ns ±11%     768ns ± 6%  -15.64%  (p=0.000 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Floats-32                    70.3ns ± 2%    29.5ns ± 1%  -57.98%  (p=0.000 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Err-32                       14.0ns ± 3%    12.1ns ± 8%  -13.20%  (p=0.000 n=8+10)      
LogFieldType/Dur-32                       17.2ns ± 2%    13.1ns ± 1%  -24.27%  (p=0.000 n=10+9)      
LogFieldType/Object-32                    54.3ns ±11%    52.3ns ± 7%     ~     (p=0.239 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Ints-32                      20.3ns ± 2%    15.1ns ± 2%  -25.50%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)      
LogFieldType/Interfaces-32                 642ns ±11%     621ns ± 9%     ~     (p=0.118 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Interface(Objects)-32         635ns ±13%     632ns ± 9%     ~     (p=0.592 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Times-32                      294ns ± 0%      27ns ± 1%  -90.71%  (p=0.000 n=10+9)      
LogFieldType/Durs-32                       121ns ± 0%      33ns ± 2%  -72.44%  (p=0.000 n=9+9)       
LogFieldType/Interface(Object)-32         56.6ns ± 8%    52.3ns ± 8%   -7.54%  (p=0.007 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Errs-32                      17.8ns ± 3%    16.1ns ± 2%   -9.71%  (p=0.000 n=10+9)      
LogFieldType/Time-32                      40.5ns ± 1%    12.7ns ± 6%  -68.66%  (p=0.000 n=8+9)       
LogFieldType/Bool-32                      12.0ns ± 5%    10.2ns ± 2%  -15.18%  (p=0.000 n=10+8)      
LogFieldType/Bools-32                     17.2ns ± 2%    12.6ns ± 4%  -26.63%  (p=0.000 n=10+10)     
LogFieldType/Int-32                       12.3ns ± 2%    11.2ns ± 4%   -9.27%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)      
LogFieldType/Float-32                     16.7ns ± 1%    12.6ns ± 2%  -24.42%  (p=0.000 n=7+9)       
LogFieldType/Str-32                       12.7ns ± 7%    11.3ns ± 7%  -10.88%  (p=0.000 n=10+9)      
LogFieldType/Strs-32                      20.3ns ± 3%    18.2ns ± 3%  -10.25%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)      
LogFieldType/Interface-32                  183ns ±12%     175ns ± 9%     ~     (p=0.078 n=10+10)     

Log message size savings is greatly dependent on the number and type of fields in the log message. Assuming this log message (with an Integer, timestamp and string, in addition to level).

{"level":"error","Fault":41650,"time":"2018-04-01T15:18:19-07:00","message":"Some Message"}

Two measurements were done for the log file sizes - one without any compression, second using compress/zlib.

Results for 10,000 log messages:

Log Format	Plain File Size (in KB)	Compressed File Size (in KB)
JSON	920	28
CBOR	550	28

The example used to calculate the above data is available in Examples.