Serde benchmark format

.gitignore

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+/target
+/Cargo.lock

Cargo.toml

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+[package]
+name = "serde-bench"
+version = "0.0.1"
+authors = ["David Tolnay <[email protected]>"]
+license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
+description = "Minimal serialization format for benchmarking Serde"
+repository = "https://github.com/serde-rs/bench"
+documentation = "https://docs.rs/serde-bench/"
+include = ["Cargo.toml", "src/**/*.rs"]
+
+[dependencies]
+byteorder = "0.5"
+num-traits = "0.1"
+serde = "0.8"

README.md

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+# serde-bench
+
+A minimal serialization format for use in benchmarks of core Serde. The format
+closely resembles Bincode but without length prefixes for fixed-sized arrays,
+which Bincode has only to maintain compatibility with rustc-serialize.
+
+## License
+
+Serde is licensed under either of
+
+ * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
+ * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
+   http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+
+at your option.
+
+### Contribution
+
+Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
+for inclusion in Serde by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
+dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.