prototext

Lossless, bidirectional converter between binary protobuf wire format and human-readable text.

User documentation

• README — Overview, installation, and usage guide
• Man page — Reference manual
• Annotation format — Wire annotation syntax reference

Design documentation

• Design — Architecture, data flow, and key design decisions
• Performance — Benchmark results and optimisation history
• protoc --decode compatibility — Compatibility analysis with protoc --decode output
• protoc --decode anomalous input — How protoc behaves on malformed or non-canonical input
• Fixture coverage model — Fixture macro reference
• Benchmark process — Performance benchmarking methodology

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