protocol buffer

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Introduction

protocol buffers is a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data.

Develops could use protocol buffers in their applications.

protocol buffers is a data format, google's data interchange format.

Qustions

• Why protocol buffer are faster than xml?

• How protocol buffer messages are encoded?

  protocol buffer encoding

• What's the major differences between proto3 and proto2?