Thanks to you all. This answers my question.
Sankar On Nov 9, 2:28 am, Kenton Varda <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
