Versus... Writable? no, the receiver has to know the Writable class in advance and therefore knows how to decode. It's not embedded in the serialization. Writable is nothing if not compact -- if you write a good encoder that is.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > > > - data knows its own schema and will interoperate with any other > compatible > > schema > > > > Isn't it also more compact due to it doesn't have to send encoding info? > > >
