j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMk<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632.msg6636#msg6636">Quote from: martin on July 30, 2010, 11:37:59 AM</a></div><div class="quote">The encoded protocol buffer is just 55 bytes, wheras the bitcoin version is 85 0x00 sets (each one representing 2 bytes each I assume). This means that my badly designed protocol buffer is half the size of the hand built layout!</div><br/>I realize that you are evangelizing for protocol buffers (and you seem to be doing a very good job of it too, I might add), but I will challenge that hand built data layouts are always bad.<br/><br/>Still, I hope this does give some food for thought and on a practical basis any improvement in the network protocol that shaves off a few bytes is always better. This doesn't seem to sacrifice too much in terms of the overhead either. More significantly, you are calling attention to an area of efficiency that needs to be addressed and is very helpful to the project. Thank you for doing that. I'm hoping to get caught up to where you are at now on this protocol business.</div> text/html
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