Thanks Evan. Your response makes some things clear to me. I meant to say I'd like chunks of 1MB ( I re-read my email and realize it wasn't worded properly).
I now have some ideas that I'm going to try out. Thanks again! On Mar 4, 8:37 am, Evan Jones <ev...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 15:53 , Linus wrote: > > > I am wondering if there are any examples of chunking large PB messages > > (about 1MB) into smaller chunks, to transmit over the wire. > > This is going to be pretty application specific. Typically it involves > taking one message with a huge repeated field and sending it / writing > it as a sequence of messages with fewer items for each repeated field. > So I can't really point you to any examples off the top of my head. > > That said: the documentation suggests keeping protocol buffers to be ~ > <1 MB in size, so if your messages are 1 MB, I personally wouldn't > worry about it. Hope this helps, > > Evan > > --http://evanjones.ca/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
