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		halayli on Oct 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative I found it interesting that they didn't benchmark it against capnproto (http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/md__benchmarks.html)

bch on Oct 25, 2014 [–]

Apparently Cap'n Proto doesn't build with MSs compiler[1]. Does it build on Windows (where the benchmarks were performed [2]) at all?

[1] http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/news/2014-06-17-capnproto... (see feature matrix)

[2]http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/md__benchmarks.html (introduction/top of article)

kentonv on Oct 25, 2014 | [–]

It builds in Cygwin -- not that I'd expect typical Windows developers to be satisfied by that.

MinGW and limited MSVC support will come soon.

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