[protobuf] Large message vs. a list message for smaller messages

2011-01-12 Thread Meghana
In the protobuf documentation, it says that protobuf is good for working with small messages but not messages larger than 1MB in size. I think that this would still be true if a message was created only to handle lists of other message types. For ex. message A { optional int32 a1 = 1;

Re: [protobuf] Large message vs. a list message for smaller messages

2011-01-12 Thread Evan Jones
On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:38 , Meghana wrote: Would ListA also be considered a large message or will the encoding be done on each individual A message making it immune to the large message problem? ListA itself will be a large message if it contains a large message of a sub-messages. If you are