[protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher Smith
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

Re: [protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-24 Thread Oliver Jowett
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.

Re: [protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Oliver Jowett oliver.jow...@gmail.comwrote: 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