I don't think that's the same thing. The compression algorithm I'm
referring to is called "Zippy" - pretty sure it's referenced in one of
their papers on another topic - maybe the Bigtable paper? I know I've seen
it in a public document somewhere. Here's a blog post about it:
http://www.c10n.info/archives/218
As far as I know, the details are secret.
-Todd
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
are you talking about this paper?
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1325851.1325984&coll=&dl=&type=series&idx=SERIES11272&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=VLDB
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Todd Lipcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also no mention of their proprietary super-fast LZO-like compression, which
is the most interesting thing IMHO that stubby/proto buffers have over
Thrift.
-Todd
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
pretty interesting:
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-our-serialized.html
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no mention of stubby...