You can just skip messages, strings, and byte arrays you don’t need or can’t decode. They are length-prefixed. Also there’s nothing about proto that prevents it from being aliased to its network buffers (zero copy). The GPs complaint stems from their own ignorance, nothing to do with the nature of protos.
tlarkworthy|6 years ago
Ok some of the things I said couldn't be done, can be done, but it's situational