Yes, groups are never going to fully go away. But we recommend against
using them in new code.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Piotr Findeisen
piotr.findei...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi!
On Jun 24, 8:42 pm, Kenton Varda ken...@google.com wrote:
The end-tag approach is more efficient than your
Does some existing parser actually implement that skipping feature?
There would not be any need for a end-tag. Let's assume that there
would be two different tags
2 - Length_Delimited, which could contain a packed list of bytes
(string, memory block) or other types where the parser needs to
Hello,
The length delimited encoding basically tells that the following N
bytes belong to this field. Wouldn't it be easier to instead use the
number of elements that belong to the embedded message (repeated
element).
Now (as far as I have understood) the message needs to be built from
The advantage of writing the length is that a parser can skip the entire
sub-message easily without having to parse its contents. Otherwise, we
would probably use the group encoding for sub-messages, where a special
end tag marks the end of the message.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, etorri
