Re: Scientific Applications

2008-09-12 Thread Chris
Nicolas wrote: Can anyone with some experience in these matters, and especially of alternative formats, e.g. netCDF, comment on this and recommend a standard well-supported solution? I do not think scientific data should be stored with protocol-buffers. I would suggest, since netCDF-4 now

Re: Deserializing Messages of unknown type at compile-time

2008-09-12 Thread Kenton Varda
Even if the message contains only one, non-repeated field, ParseFrom*() will keep reading until EOF or an error. At Google, we have lots of various container formats, for streaming, record-based files, database tables, etc., where each record is a protocol buffer. All of these formats store the