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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for
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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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    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...?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/19/2015 02:57 PM, Richard Brady
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            <div class="gmail_signature">Thanks guys, great answers. </div>
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            <div class="gmail_signature">The design choice certainly
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          <div class="gmail_signature">Regards,</div>
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