[protobuf] Do Protocol Buffers read entire collection of messages into memory from file?

Hi, I am wondering how do Protocol Buffers read input files? Is the entire file read into memory or some proxy technique is used and entries are read only when required? This is a vital feature for large lists, say, some dataset with 10^9 messages. Do Protocol Buffers use any additional

Re: [protobuf] Do Protocol Buffers read entire collection of messages into memory from file?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:45, ksamdev ksam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am wondering how do Protocol Buffers read input files? Is the entire file read into memory or some proxy technique is used and entries are read only when required? If you have a sequence of messages you process then you'd