Best way to use google protocol buffer (protobuf) with Matlab
I am trying to import some protobuffs into Matlab. I see 2 ways to do this
1) Use the protobuf Matlab Plugin
2) Use the C ++ APIs provided by Google and then import the data into Matlab using mex files.
Since I am working with large scale data, which one is faster to run?
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Faster startup is probably C ++, of the two.
I can tell you for sure that the transition to the Matlab language level for bytes, double-byte, four-byte reads or buffer calls is much slower than you might expect.
And looking in protobuf-matlab / source / browse / protobuflib I can see tons of operations of this type performed in Matlab code.
You haven't pointed out which I think is the best of both worlds: the Java API.
If you have any Java code in your project or a modest level of comfort with Java, I would strongly consider using the Java API. Matlab has really good Java compatibility; it has the big advantage that you can interactively work with example methods () etc. There is some learning curve with javaObject () / javaMethod () where you can use more custom syntax.
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