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# Flexbuffers
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[Flexbuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.html) is a
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schema-less binary format developed at Google. FlexBuffers can be accessed
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without parsing, copying, or allocation. This is a huge win for efficiency,
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memory friendly-ness, and allows for unique use cases such as mmap-ing large
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amounts of free-form data.
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FlexBuffers' design and implementation allows for a very compact encoding,
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with automatic sizing of containers to their smallest possible representation
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(8/16/32/64 bits). Many values and offsets can be encoded in just 8 bits.
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FlexBuffers supports [Serde](https://serde.rs/) for automatically serializing
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Rust data structures into its binary format.
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## See Examples for Usage:
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* [Example](https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/samples/sample_flexbuffers.rs)
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* [Serde Example](https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/samples/sample_flexbuffers_serde.rs)
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* [Documentation](https://docs.rs/flexbuffers)
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Flexbuffers is the schema-less cousin of
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[Flatbuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/).
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