Appfabric Caching - Serialization

Question

I could not find an answer to this simple question. What kind of serializer is used in AppFabric Caching ? Thanks,

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '12 at 11:04

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It's NetDataContractSerializer. found here

answered Sep 13 '12 at 11:04

Cybermaxs

Strangely though if I cache a single array of 10^6 bytes then the app fabric cache reports one entry with a size of 1,008,640 bytes, i.e. much less expansion of the data than XML serialization would cause. Also I get the same size for both an array of zeroes and an array of random numbers, so no compression is at work here. – redcalx Jan 11 '13 at 17:46
A byte array (byte[]) is the one case that's not serialized - byte arrays are passed thru as-is from the client to the cluster (and back). This is stated by Microsoft engineers here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/3d159d3f-bc79-486d-95c3-0ea9ea7d6f71/appfabric-cache-serialization – Dave Clausen Oct 22 '14 at 20:18

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