title: Does BinaryFormatter apply any compression?
body: <p>When .NET's <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatters.binary.binaryformatter.aspx" rel="noreferrer"><code>BinaryFormatter</code></a> is used to serialize an object graph, is any type of compression applied?</p>
  
  <p>I ask in the context of whether I should worry about the object graph having many repeated strings and integers.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong> - Hold on, if strings are interned in .NET, there's no need to worry about repeated strings, right?</p>