Google releases Protocol Buffers

Google has announced the release of its "Protocol Buffers" code under the Apache license. "Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice. These classes come complete with heavily-optimized code to parse and serialize your message in an extremely compact format." In other words, it's another XDR/RPC/pickle implementation, but tuned to Google's performance needs.

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