NOTE: This is a binary breaking change as structure sizes have changed size
and/or order.
- Drop capturing field options, no other options were captured and other mobile
targeted languages don't try to capture this sort information (saved 8
bytes for every field defined (in static data and again in field descriptor
instance size data).
- No longer generate/compile in the messages/enums in descriptor.proto. If
developers need it, they should generate it and compile it in. Reduced the
overhead of the core library.
- Compute the number of has_bits actually needs to avoid over reserving.
- Let the boolean single fields store via a has_bit to avoid storage, makes
the common cases of the instance size smaller.
- Reorder some flags and down size the enums to contain the bits needed.
- Reorder the items in the structures to manually ensure they are are packed
better (especially when generating 64bit code - 8 bytes for every field,
16 bytes for every extension, instance sizes 8 bytes also).
- Split off the structure initialization so when the default is zero, the
generated static storage doesn't need to reserve the space. This is batched
at the message level, so all the fields for the message have to have zero
defaults to get the saves. By definition all proto3 syntax files fall into
this case but it also saves space for the proto2 that use the standard
defaults. (saves 8 bytes of static data for every field that had a zero
default)
- Don't track the enums defined by a message. Nothing in the runtime needs it
and it was just generation and runtime overhead. (saves 8 bytes per enum)
- Ensure EnumDescriptors are started up threadsafe in all cases.
- Split some of the Descriptor initialization into multiple methods so the
generated code isn't padded with lots of zero/nil args.
- Change how oneof info is feed to the runtime enabling us to generate less
static data (8 bytes saved per oneof for 64bit).
- Change how enum value informat is capture to pack the data and only decode
it if it ends up being needed. Avoids padding issues causing bloat of 64bit,
and removes the needs for extra pointers in addition to the data (just the
data and one pointer now).
- Convert most of the core library headers over to HeaderDoc format.
- Switch the generated comments over to HeaderDoc.
- Create GPBCodedOutputStream_PackagePrivate and move some things into there
that should be more internal.
Improves #1296.
The problem: in the previous patch, we tweaked the __init__.py files to use
namespaces, but no longer declared ourselves as a namespace package. The
second half was unwise.
Note that this only comes up when installing protobuf alongside another
package that also installs into the google namespace; as of right now, the
only PyPI package that does is googleapis-common-protos, though the GAE SDK
also uses google.appengine. Installing either or both of those alongside this
package now works.
The case that still remains is the upgrade path, which is also what worried me
in #713. It seems that if protobuf 2.6.1 is installed, there's no way to
safely upgrade that to work with a newer protobuf. However, `pip uninstall` &&
`pip install` does the trick.
Pradeep Gollakota
alien
Thomas Van Lenten
Feng Xiao
Jisi Liu
Steven Parkes
Ben Vanik
Pete Warden
Antal Tátrai
Joshua Haberman
Silviu Calinoiu
Jon Skeet
avgweb
Craig Citro
Sergio Campama
Paul Yang