1# Flexbuffers 2 3[Flexbuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.html) is a 4schema-less binary format developed at Google. FlexBuffers can be accessed 5without parsing, copying, or allocation. This is a huge win for efficiency, 6memory friendly-ness, and allows for unique use cases such as mmap-ing large 7amounts of free-form data. 8 9FlexBuffers' design and implementation allows for a very compact encoding, 10with automatic sizing of containers to their smallest possible representation 11(8/16/32/64 bits). Many values and offsets can be encoded in just 8 bits. 12 13FlexBuffers supports [Serde](https://serde.rs/) for automatically serializing 14Rust data structures into its binary format. 15 16## See Examples for Usage: 17* [Example](https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/samples/sample_flexbuffers.rs) 18* [Serde Example](https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/samples/sample_flexbuffers_serde.rs) 19* [Documentation](https://docs.rs/flexbuffers) 20 21Flexbuffers is the schema-less cousin of 22[Flatbuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/). 23