Thank you for the response.
On Mar 8, 5:59 am, Evan Jones <ev...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:12 , Linus wrote: > > > At a later stage in the code, the values of (say) Message A are > > changed by the user. Is there a way of modifying only Message A and > > updating the file on disk, without loading the composite Message C > > updating the Message A and flushing entire contents to disk again? > > Not really: protocol buffers are a variable length encoding, so > changing Message A could change the length, so overwriting doesn't > really work, at least not without additional checks and effort. > > Evan > > --http://evanjones.ca/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
