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James E. King, III commented on THRIFT-424:
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[~jfarrell] is this something we want to keep in the backlog?
> Steal ProtocolBuffers' VarInt implementation for C++
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> Key: THRIFT-424
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-424
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++ - Library
> Reporter: David Reiss
> Priority: Minor
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> Protocol Buffers use the same varint format as TCompactProtocol (not, as I
> had previously believed, TDenseProtocol, which uses the MIDI VLQ format).
> They have a much smarter C++ decoder than ours (and probably a better encoder
> also). Protocol Buffers is (are?) three-clause BSD licensed, which means
> that we should be able to *cough* borrow *cough* their implementation and use
> it for our C++ TCompactProtocol implementation.
> We might even be able to do the same for Java and Python.
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