// TODO(jtattermusch): if the message doesn't implement IBufferMessage (and thus does not provide the InternalMergeFrom method),
// what we're doing here works fine, but could be more efficient.
// What happends is that we first initialize a ParseContext from the current coded input stream only to parse the length of the message, at which point
// we will need to switch back again to CodedInputStream-based parsing (which involves copying and storing the state) to be able to
// invoke the legacy MergeFrom(CodedInputStream) method.
// For now, this inefficiency is fine, considering this is only a backward-compatibility scenario (and regenerating the code fixes it).