Correct. I should have said "more likely to be deterministic" Bitcoin
Core does not *rely* on determinism in BIP70; I was referring to recent
upstream efforts to make protobufs usable in a deterministic fashion by
default.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Alan Reiner <etothe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit confused. It's been a long time since I looked at protobuf
> (and will have to dig into it soon), but I seem to recall it doesn't have
> any of the determinism properties you guys just said. It is intended to
> allow you to skip details of the on-the-wire representations and just send
> a bunch of named fields between systems. I thought there was no guarantee
> that two identical protobuf structures will get serialized identically...?
>
>
>
>
>
> On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady wrote:
>
> Thanks guys, great answers.
>
> The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of
> whether one agrees with it or not.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
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