j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMî<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632.msg6565#msg6565">Quote from: lachesis on July 30, 2010, 01:04:06 AM</a></div><div class="quote"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632.msg6547#msg6547">Quote from: martin on July 29, 2010, 11:29:31 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Some people have been suggesting that protocol buffers might be larger than the custom written packet layout. I suspect that actually it would be *smaller* due to some of the clever encoding used in protocol buffers. <br/></div>I agree that it could be smaller; not necessarily because of clever encoding, but because it would allow us to drop reserved bytes and the like.<br/></div><br/>Not only does it allow it to drop reserved fields, but it uses ZigZag encoding and some other tricks to keep integers and the like as absolutely small as possible. So yea, it uses clever encoding. =P It's also blazingly fast to process!</div> text/html
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