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Thanks for explaining that and for the reference. It seems like a lot of overhead for a protocol that is designed to be cheap...

• pherl 10y ago
  There are also wrapper well known types that you can fallback to (in wrappers.proto), when you need to distinguish between, say empty string and null.
  • dyoo1979 10y ago
    https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/protobuf/wrappers.proto#L31 https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr...