Knobbler's OSC Diet: From One Message at a Time to Columnar

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Knobbler pushes a firehose of OSC between a Max for Live device and a tablet app. Over a few years the wire format evolved through five distinct tricks — single messages, coalescing, batching, chunking, and finally a columnar encoding — each one solving a specific kind of waste. Here's the progression, with real payloads and the bytes saved at each step.

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