In addition to what Henner says, we felt that it wasn't worthwhile to
implement packed encoding for strings or sub-messages because the savings
would be very small. The packed encoding only saves one or two bytes per
element.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Henner Zeller
When I set [packed = true] on a nested message field, I receive this error:
[packed = true] can only be specified for repeated primitive fields.
I wonder why it is disallowed. The output for packed nested field list as
the below:
The field number and wire type LENGTH_DELIMITED.
Length of all