From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] capnp-ocaml 1.0.0
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:10:44 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25a164c9efba9ae7ceefcb1779aba796@whitequark.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANk_VLKq3bpH9UGU0OkzhpgdhfwKOQ3JNcjZ6-Wk5TNeNavfDw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2014-07-07 17:46, Paul Pelzl wrote:
> Q: Why would I want to use this over Protocol Buffers?
>
> A: Cap'n Proto has the clear advantage of first-class sum types, which
> are mapped to OCaml variants in a straightforward fashion. You also
> find yourself intrigued by the potential for better performance and
> zero-overhead shared-memory message passing.
I want to note that ppx_protobuf provides an efficient mapping for
OCaml's sum types, which would map to most well-designed protocols
naturally.
https://github.com/whitequark/ppx_protobuf#variants
--
Peter Zotov
sip:whitequark@sipnet.ru
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