That does sound surprising, and I would expect the packed version to be smaller. Could you post the code you wrote to test the sizes?
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:42 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to find out difference in encoded size using packed equal to > true and without any packed encoding. I looped a int32 variable 5000 times. > With packed = true, i get size as 29876 and without packed encoding, i get > size as 24876. I am confused why i get opposite results. As per my > understanding, size with packed should be less as compared to non packed. > Can anyone please explain what the issue is? > My proto file is below for non packed and for packed i modify id filed as; > repeated int32 id = 2[packed=true]: > > syntax = "proto2"; > message Person { > optional string name = 1; > repeated int32 id = 2; > optional string email = 3; > > enum PhoneType { > MOBILE = 0; > HOME = 1; > WORK = 2; > } > > message PhoneNumber { > optional string number = 1; > optional PhoneType type = 2 [default = HOME]; > } > > repeated PhoneNumber phones = 4; > } > > message AddressBook { > repeated Person people = 1; > } > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
