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Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for
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serializing structured data - think XML, but smaller, faster, and
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simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then
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you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your
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structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a
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variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without
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breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the "old" format.
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