[erlang-questions] BERT vs protobuf in the erlang world

[Mark Geib]

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Any chance of sharing your erlang generator for protobuf.? We have
been using protobuf with erlang for a while and F-I-I-I-ghting with
the generation of erlang code for our protobufs. Or, a pointer to a
quality generator some one else knows of would be appreciated.

Mark.

On 08/22/2011 06:57 PM, Jon Watte wrote:
> We use protobuf; we wrote our own Erlang generator which is not
> super efficient, but better than what was available at the time. We
> use C++, Python, and PHP generators on other systems (we wrote the
> PHP generator ourselves, too). Sorry, no feedback on the Java and
> AS3 generators, but in the system as a whole, the protobufs work
> just as expected, including preservation of unknown fields, and
> because each 16-hardware-thread node (dual quad-core hyper-threaded
> Xeons) only has gigabit Ethernet, we can't really feed a single
> node faster than it can parse and process requests. Memory
> bandwidth is 50 GB/s or better; Ethernet TCP bandwidth is 110 MB/s
> :-)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> jw
>
>
> -- Americans might object: there is no way we would sacrifice our
> living standards for the benefit of people in the rest of the
> world. Nevertheless, whether we get there willingly or not, we
> shall soon have lower consumption rates, because our present rates
> are unsustainable.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED
> <mailto:moxford@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
> BERT is pretty much a "known good quantity" but protobuf is more
> efficient on the wire.
>
> Anyone have thoughts on which to go with?
>
> Also, along the BERT side, does anyone have recommendations on AS3
> and Java implementations of the marshallers?
>
> The downside(s) to protobuf - hard IDLs and you have to build the
> project and generators. The downside(s) to BERT - less efficient on
> the wire (verbosity.)
>
> TIA!
>
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