No, it is to read a byte at a time and turn it into the semantic value for the data structure you are filling in. Like read 128 and then 1 and set the variable

No, it is to read a byte at a time and turn it into the semantic value for the data structure you are filling in. Like read 128 and then 1 and set the variable to 32769. If u are the author of protobufs then you may run profiling and write the best assembly etc but otherwise no, don’t do it.