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Re:Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone by codeflo on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:23PM (#20265976)
The point is that Protobuf has variable length ints by default. That’s an optimization for many common use cases, but slower and larger for random data, including GUIDs. Use Protobuf’s fixed ints for those.
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