alt Hacker NewsGoogle really dropped the ball with protobuf when they took so long to make them zero-copy. There are 3rd party implementations popping up now and a real risk of future wire-level incompatibilities across languages.
Google really dropped the ball with protobuf when they took so long to make them zero-copy. There are 3rd party implementations popping up now and a real risk of future wire-level incompatibilities across languages.
"zero copy" in this context just means that the contents of the input buffer are aliased to string fields in the decoded representation. This is a language-level feature and has nothing to do with the wire format.