On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Kenton Varda wrote:
> There are problems with this:
>
> 1) Boxing and unboxing primitives is relatively expensive, compared to just
> passing them as primitives. If performance matters to you at all (and for
> many protobuf users, it does), you probably don't wan
There are problems with this:
1) Boxing and unboxing primitives is relatively expensive, compared to just
passing them as primitives. If performance matters to you at all (and for
many protobuf users, it does), you probably don't want this.
2) If you accept messages from untrusted sources, your
I am new to using Protocol Buffers and was really surprised why a
compiler option is not available to control how scalar types are
mapped in Java when generating the message objects. I understand the
concept of having a null int in C++ is not possible, but isn't is
really backwards to have to call
