Google Code Blog: Protocol Buffers, our serialized structured data, released as Open Source

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs One of the core pieces of infrastructure at Google is something called Protocol Buffers. We are really pleased to be open sourcing the system, but what are these buffers?Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be struc

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マルチプラットフォームのRPC/IDL。定義済みの型を取り込んで入れ子にしたりできるらしい。optionalなフィールドが多いのでtag番号を使う方がサイズを切り詰めやすいというプラクティス？