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The following page has been changed by BryanDuxbury: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/New_compact_binary_protocol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ === Remove / reduce the size of field prefix tags === ||Suggestion||Pros||Cons|| ||Reduce from 3 bytes per field to 1 byte, see [http://publists.facebook.com/pipermail/thrift/2008-January/000275.html mail] (retains versioning support)|| || * only good for dense structs * breaks down if type modifiers/hints need to go into type field|| + ||1-byte type, variable length int for field id|| || || ||Drop field prefix altogether|||||| === Type changes ===
