On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Simon Brandhof
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What are the side-effects to define wrapper messages as a workaround ?
>
> message Foo {
>   Int32 bar = 1;
> }
>
> message Int32 {
>   int32 value = 1;
> }
>
> In Java it allows to have Foo.hasBar() and Foo.getBar().getValue().

Sub-message involves a lot more encoding overhead, both cpu time
(creating objects) as well as larger data encoding (extra tag + length
get encoded -- an extra 2 bytes).

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