[protobuf] Size of string Message not reducing even after serializing with Protocolbuffer

2014-05-16 Thread Ratheesh R
Hello Experts, I am new to this Protocol buffer techinque.I am trying to use PB in my project because my project is critical to the data transfer rate(Battery power). So I am trying to use PB to serialize data (in binary mode) to reduce the data size before transferring this data to the

Re: [protobuf] Size of string Message not reducing even after serializing with Protocolbuffer

2014-05-16 Thread Ilia Mirkin
Can you elaborate a bit on the before scenario? (i.e. exactly what are you comparing protobuf to?) Protobuf adds overhead to data (in order to tell which field is which, etc), and does nothing for reducing the sizes of strings. (Integers are usually varint-encoded, so if they're small, they'll