Comparing 2 PBs?

[ojwl...@googlemail.com]

What's the "best" (simplest, fastest) way to compare two protocol-
buffer objects? (in compiled_for=speed mode)

[Kenton Varda]

In which language?  In Java you can just use .equals().  In C++, you could serialize the two and compare the bytes.  Alternatively, you could write some code that iterates over the fields via reflection and compares them.

[Chris]

ojwl...@googlemail.com wrote:
> What's the "best" (simplest, fastest) way to compare two protocol-
> buffer objects? (in compiled_for=speed mode)

In what language?

In the Haskell implementation, it adds
> deriving (P'.Show, P'.Eq, P'.Ord, P'.Typeable)
to each message and this gives you printing, (==),(>),(<), etc.