Does using the protobuf Any time improve performance? Currently, I have a couple of services that just pass data through without doing any transformations. Would using the Any type save on cpu cycles spent serializing/deserializing data?
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You may also be interested in [FlatBuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/). – yeputons Feb 22 '17 at 01:46
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PB main page: "... mechanism for serializing _structured data_". You "just pass data without any transformations". Why are you looking for any kind of wire encoding at all? Just send the data. – Pavel Zdenek Feb 22 '17 at 07:20
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Packing a message inside an Any will prevent the intermediate services that just pass it through from packing and unpacking it. Roughly speaking, if the time it takes to serialize+deserialize this message is larger than what it takes to serialize+deserialize an Any containing that message, then you may be able to save some CPU time, though I would suggest to measure first.
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