Alan Reiner [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: π Original date posted:2015-01-19 π Original message:I'm a bit confused. It's ...
π
Original date posted:2015-01-19
π Original message:I'm a bit confused. It's been a long time since I looked at protobuf
(and will have to dig into it soon), but I seem to recall it doesn't
have any of the determinism properties you guys just said. It is
intended to allow you to skip details of the on-the-wire representations
and just send a bunch of named fields between systems. I thought there
was no guarantee that two identical protobuf structures will get
serialized identically...?
On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady wrote:
> Thanks guys, great answers.
>
> The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of
> whether one agrees with it or not.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.
> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn.
> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth.
> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bitcoin-development mailing list
> Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150119/c6c82c2c/attachment.html>
π Original message:I'm a bit confused. It's been a long time since I looked at protobuf
(and will have to dig into it soon), but I seem to recall it doesn't
have any of the determinism properties you guys just said. It is
intended to allow you to skip details of the on-the-wire representations
and just send a bunch of named fields between systems. I thought there
was no guarantee that two identical protobuf structures will get
serialized identically...?
On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady wrote:
> Thanks guys, great answers.
>
> The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of
> whether one agrees with it or not.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.
> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn.
> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth.
> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bitcoin-development mailing list
> Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150119/c6c82c2c/attachment.html>