On 04/01/2013 02:37 PM, Kagamin wrote:
AFAIK, it's opposite: an array serialized in chunks, and they are
concatenated on deserialization. Useful if you don't know how much
elements you're sending, so you send them in finite chunks as the data
becomes available. Client can also close connection, so you don't have
to see the end of the sequence.
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#optional
The "packed repeated fields" section explains it and breaks it down with
an example. If the client can close like that, you probably don't want
to use packed.
-Soucy