Commit 0962de20 authored by Kenton Varda's avatar Kenton Varda

Doc tweaks.

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**_Won't fixed-width integers, unset optional fields, and padding waste space on the wire?_**
Yes. However, since all these extra bytes are zeros, when bandwidth matters, we can apply an
extremely fast compression scheme to remove them. Cap'n Proto calls this "packing" the message;
it achieves similar (better, even) message sizes to protobuf encoding, and it's still faster.
extremely fast Cap'n-Proto-specific compression scheme to remove them. Cap'n Proto calls this
"packing" the message; it achieves similar (better, even) message sizes to protobuf encoding, and
it's still faster.
When bandwidth really matters, you should apply general-purpose compression, like
[zlib](http://www.zlib.net/) or [Snappy](https://code.google.com/p/snappy/), regardless of your
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* [C and Go](https://github.com/jmckaskill/go-capnproto) by
[@jmckaskill](https://github.com/jmckaskill)
* [Boost Python wrappers for Cap'n Proto C++](https://github.com/jparyani/capnproto) by
* [Python wrappers for Cap'n Proto C++](https://github.com/jparyani/capnpc-python-cpp) by
[@jparyani](https://github.com/jparyani)
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