go-protobuf-practice

A project for test some things around protobuf

how to play

The objects are defined in person.proto file, this file is the input for 'protobuf' compiler generate all the required code for play around.

For compile it:

make compile

Then it can be ran:

make run

For a simple benchmark between protobuf and json:

make benchmark

Benchmark results:

BenchmarkProtobufJson/protobuf_encoding-8                3516054               302 ns/op              32 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkProtobufJson/protobuf_decoding-8                2424274               511 ns/op             184 B/op          5 allocs/op
BenchmarkProtobufJson/json_encoding-8                    2018937               558 ns/op              80 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkProtobufJson/json_decoding-8                     520821              2411 ns/op             464 B/op         12 allocs/op

references

• https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
• https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/gotutorial
• https://tutorialedge.net/golang/go-protocol-buffer-tutorial/