Christopher Smith wrote: > There is also the other end of the spectrum, where I am at. With a > large Hadoop cluster and terabytes of data, the efficient storage and > zippy parsing of protobufs is a huge deal. > > In many ways, protobufs allow you do do what XML promised, but much > more efficiently. The other way to look at them is they are ASN.1 > reduced to the simplest usefull feature set.
Amusingly enough, we use protocol buffers to transport ASN.1-encoded data (SS7 TCAP messages). The protobuf API is far better than the API produced by the commercial ASN.1 compiler we use. -O -- 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.
