Comments on: Protocol Buffers – Missing Usage Guide? http://lsblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/protocol-buffers-%e2%80%93-missing-usage-guide/ Random thoughts about software, trading and live Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: libor http://lsblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/protocol-buffers-%e2%80%93-missing-usage-guide/#comment-2852 libor Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:28:01 +0000 http://lsblog.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-2852 HTTP is stateless protocol. Each request might start with making/opening TCP connection and than sending request to the server side. So you have perf. degradation right there. Additionally you have to parse text based HTML header to know binary data are send over. I agree for the most cases this probably does not matter much but in real-time or large number transaction systems (i.e. GOOGLE like case) even such overheads will magnify total results. HTTP is stateless protocol. Each request might start with making/opening TCP connection and than sending request to the server side.

So you have perf. degradation right there.

Additionally you have to parse text based HTML header to know binary data are send over.

I agree for the most cases this probably does not matter much but in real-time or large number transaction systems (i.e. GOOGLE like case) even such overheads will magnify total results.

]]> By: bmadigan http://lsblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/protocol-buffers-%e2%80%93-missing-usage-guide/#comment-2849 bmadigan Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:55:35 +0000 http://lsblog.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-2849 How does HTTP negate performance gains of binary format vs character format? You generally read the content as a byte stream, so setting the content-type and content-encoding properly should prevent any problems. How does HTTP negate performance gains of binary format vs character format? You generally read the content as a byte stream, so setting the content-type and content-encoding properly should prevent any problems.

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