On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, bolson <brian.ol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently noticed that one of my protobuf-data-files still benefitted
> from gzip at a ratio slightly better than 7 to 1.


Just to note, this is not surprising.  PB is a compact format but does not
actual compression, so if you have a message containing repetitive data, it
will still compress well.

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