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cowsandmilk on Sept 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, wh...

Yep, and this variant to the encoding is documented at https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/techniques/#streamin...

Definitely seems to be a routine addition to the standard supported by many libraries.

lifthrasiir on Sept 20, 2023 [–]

> Yep, and this variant to the encoding is documented at [...]

It only suggests the length prefix and doesn't define the exact encoding at all.

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