On Oct 24, 2009, at 13:46 , Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > It good becuase it allows you to record positions in message streams > for inplace editing of things like transaction id, and inplace > persitience of parts of messages without the need for a byte copy.
I'm confused about how you are going to do an in place update. Since protocol buffers are variable length, wouldn't this fail in many cases? But I get being able to pull out parts of messages without a copy. Evan -- Evan Jones http://evanjones.ca/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
