Binary Protocol

Definitions

1. A communication protocol that encodes messages as binary structures instead of human-readable text. Binary protocols often trade easier debugging for better performance, smaller payloads, and stricter parsing semantics.

   In plain English: A communication protocol that sends messages as binary data instead of readable text.

   Example: "The device spoke a proprietary binary protocol, so the team had to write a decoder before they could inspect the command frames properly."

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