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Why exactly does a megabyte matter, unless you're trying to run on a 90's watch or embedded?
by ikiris 6y ago
Why exactly does a megabyte matter, unless you're trying to run on a 90's watch or embedded?
- FpUser 6y agoMaybe because "20X slower"
- dweis 6y agoThese are simply tradeoffs. For example, one can make very fast protobuf parsers/serializers if you prioritize that over the ergonomics of the generated code.
- naniwaduni 6y agoWell, transmitting a megabyte also takes a full second at 8 Mbps.
- RhodesianHunter 6y agoNobody's transmitting this, it's the size of the library doing the proto serialization/deser