This is a production release of go-codec.
The main benefits are streamlined go modules support, re-factoring and performance improvements:
- removed some code cruft
- moved codec/bench into its own module, so it's requirements do not pollute the core library dependencies
- implement reading the next value in the stream natively, provided by each format's handle
- remove mode of reading the next value in the stream by decoding into a throwaway value and tracking bytes read
- clean up code to enable better inlining for better performance
- fix and expand tests to get richer code coverage;
go test -coverreports > 90% - and many general performance improvements ...
The main goal has always been to provide the most feature-rich and performant package for encoding and decoding of multiple popular binary and text formats in a consistent way.
We believe we continue to achieve that!