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

Doc tweaks.

parent 3cb61c7a
...@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ always knows how to arrange them for backwards-compatibility. ...@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ always knows how to arrange them for backwards-compatibility.
**_Won't fixed-width integers, unset optional fields, and padding waste space on the wire?_** **_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 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; extremely fast Cap'n-Proto-specific compression scheme to remove them. Cap'n Proto calls this
it achieves similar (better, even) message sizes to protobuf encoding, and it's still faster. "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 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 [zlib](http://www.zlib.net/) or [Snappy](https://code.google.com/p/snappy/), regardless of your
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...@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintained by respective authors and have not been reviewed by me ...@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ maintained by respective authors and have not been reviewed by me
* [C and Go](https://github.com/jmckaskill/go-capnproto) by * [C and Go](https://github.com/jmckaskill/go-capnproto) by
[@jmckaskill](https://github.com/jmckaskill) [@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) [@jparyani](https://github.com/jparyani)
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