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Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields


This post assumes a basic familiarity with the user-facing aspects of Google's open-source protobuffer suite. In short, protobuffer allows you to define a set of messages which you would like to exchange using a simple DSL in a .protofile.

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