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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMk<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632.msg6636#msg6636">Quote from: martin on July 30, 2010, 11:37:59 AM</a></div><div class="quote">The encoded protocol buffer is just 55 bytes, wheras the bitcoin version is 85 0x00 sets (each one representing 2 bytes each I assume). This means that my badly designed protocol buffer is half the size of the hand built layout!</div><br/>I realize that you are evangelizing for protocol buffers (and you seem to be doing a very good job of it too, I might add), but I will challenge that hand built data layouts are always bad.<br/><br/>Still, I hope this does give some food for thought and on a practical basis any improvement in the network protocol that shaves off a few bytes is always better.&nbsp; This doesn't seem to sacrifice too much in terms of the overhead either.&nbsp; More significantly, you are calling attention to an area of efficiency that needs to be addressed and is very helpful to the project.&nbsp; Thank you for doing that.&nbsp; I'm hoping to get caught up to where you are at now on this protocol business.</div> text/html