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Wouldn’t it be even smaller to do this
message Packet {
repeated uint32 pids = 1 [packed=true];
repeated string execnames = 2;
}
working under the assumption that the two repeated fields will be the
same length? You will burn two
Well, for regular values, it goes tag value, for a subproto it
goes tag length submessage (which in turn has tag value
pairs in it). So it depends on the number of fields inside of the
message, and how many bytes it is total. But assuming non-edge-case
conditions, you're probably better off using
