Status: IN
Avro's binary encoding systematically prioritizes compactness over self-description: the format contains no type tags or field names (requiring both schemas for decoding), arrays use zero-terminated blocks for streaming, and negative block counts enable O(1) skipping — all optimizations that assume schema availability.
Three encoding design choices all trade introspectability for compact, streaming-friendly wire format
Depends on (SL): avro-no-self-describing-format, avro-block-encoding-zero-terminated, avro-negative-count-carries-byte-size