Sure, but that decoding speed penalty doesn't stop protobuf (and similar encodings using leb128 like thrift) from being some of the most used binary encodings on the planet, even in relatively low latency spaces.
Additionally, Cap'N Proto RLE encodes the bytestream, which is pretty similar to the overhead of LEB128 integers.
And on top of all of that, .wasm isn't intended to be an IPC format, so the fact that it's choices are typical of that space (despite not being leading edge) reflect very well for the space it's intended to be in.
Additionally, Cap'N Proto RLE encodes the bytestream, which is pretty similar to the overhead of LEB128 integers.
And on top of all of that, .wasm isn't intended to be an IPC format, so the fact that it's choices are typical of that space (despite not being leading edge) reflect very well for the space it's intended to be in.