I'm a bit confused. It's been a long time since I looked at protobuf (and will have to dig into it soon), but I seem to recall it doesn't have any of the determinism properties you guys just said. It is intended to allow you to skip details of the on-the-wire representations and just send a bunch of named fields between systems. I thought there was no guarantee that two identical protobuf structures will get serialized identically...?

On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady wrote:

Thanks guys, great answers.

The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of whether one agrees with it or not.

Regards,

Richard

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