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Introduction "MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller." (by http://msgpack.org/). There are already so many languages support MessagePack format, here comes AutoIt version. The backend coder is Charlie Gunyon's cmp. It supported MessagePack proposal v5. This UDF only have two public functions: MsgPack_Pack() and MsgPack_Unpack(). It just like Json_Enocde() and Json_Decode() in my ?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>JSON UDF. The Map type will be decoded into "Windows Scripting Dictionary Object" retuned from ObjCreate("Scripting.Dictionary"). So I suggest using Json.au3 to deal with the Map/Object data type. The main difference is MessagePack support Binary format, but Json not. For example (?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>Json.au3 is required to run this example): Local $Obj1 Json_Put($Obj1, ".binary", Binary("0x00")) Json_Put($Obj1, ".string", "abc") Json_Put($Obj1, ".int", Random(0, 1000, 1)) Json_Put($Obj1, ".float", Random()) Json_Put($Obj1, ".bool", True) Json_Put($Obj1, ".null", Null) Local $Binary = MsgPack_Pack($Obj1) Local $Obj2 = MsgPack_Unpack($Binary) ConsoleWrite("Test2 $Obj1.binary is " & VarGetType(Json_Get($Obj2, ".binary")) & @LF) ; "Binary" In my opinion, for human readable data storing or exchanging, of course choose Json. Otherwise, especially to exchange data on the internet, MessagePack may be a better choice. MsgPack.zip