Protobuf does not do compression (though you can, of course, apply compression on top of protobufs).
If you are just looking to transmit a large blob of bytes with no structure, then protobufs won't help you. On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM, sansun08 <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have written a client server application in java. The client > application upload's huge files to the server via http. Will protobuf > be helpful in improving the speed of uploads. To be more precise, does > it compress binary data(A class containing a byte array of size 256k > and few more sting fields. Will this be a good candidate for protobuf > serialization.). Based on the documents, I do see that protobuf does > encoding, but I also get an impression that it is efficient only in > the case of object serialization of complex class structures. Is my > understanding right? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
