performance - Expensiveness of inheritance and nesting within protobuf-net serialization -

performance - Expensiveness of inheritance and nesting within protobuf-net serialization -

i using protobuf-net within high-performance wcf services. serialized objects have:

an inheritance depth of 3-4 levels (child class root class -> flattened well) a nesting of objects of 3-4 levels (objects containing objects -> flattened well)

is there considerable overhead in dealing inheritance , nesting give reason flatten max?

thank insights.

performance wcf serialization protobuf-net