Hi there! The FAQ states *"*Random access*:* You can read just one field of a message without parsing the whole thing". *However, does that also apply to List indexing*? I have a flexible-length list of potentially large objects, and I need to access the nth list element from disk without having to hold other elements in memory.
I started using capnp for internal serialization in a prototype, with a more dynamic approach to data types and data structures. For this, I'm mostly attracted by the fast implementation and random access option, which gives me the possibility to mmap data structures to lazy-load attributes from disk. I'm currently using the Python interface but I might switch to C++, Rust or go at a later stage. I will try to profile this with a toy example. Nevertheless, I'd be thankful for a theoretical consideration here! Cheers Johannes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cap'n Proto" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to capnproto+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/capnproto/48035174-9253-48d3-ad3d-b3fe69d249a3n%40googlegroups.com.
