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Install the protoc-gen-gofast binary

go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gofast

Use it to generate faster marshaling and unmarshaling go code for you protocol buffers.

protoc --gofast_out=. myproto.proto

Other binaries are also included:

protoc-gen-gogofast (same as gofast, but imports gogoprotobuf)
protoc-gen-gogofaster (same as gogofast, without XXX_unrecognized, less pointer fields)
protoc-gen-gogoslick (same as gogofaster, but with generated string, gostring and equal methods)

Please visit the homepage for more documentation.

To install it, you must first have Go (at least version 1.3.3) installed (see http://golang.org/doc/install). Go 1.3.3, 1.4.2, 1.5.3 and 1.6 are continiuosly tested.

Next, install the standard protocol buffer implementation from https://github.com/google/protobuf. Most versions from 2.3.1 should not give any problems, but 2.5.0, 2.6.1 and 3 alpha are continiously tested.

Finally run:

go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto
go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo
go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto

Proto3 is supported, but most of the new native types are not supported yet. See Proto3 Issue for more details.

It works the same as golang/protobuf, simply specify the plugin. Here is an example using gofast:

protoc --gofast_out=plugins=grpc:. my.proto