I don't know about performance; I would assume blobs are more effecient based on how we are using them. Instead of a field by field copy, we're doing one memcpy.
However, performance is not a huge issue with our blobs. They aren't read very often. The item blob is read once and cached. The player profile/inventory data is the only data that is handled consistently throughout a session, but not often enough to worry about performance (imo).
The only reason I see for using blobs is for convenience. It's much less code.
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