Does protobuf-net have built-in compression for serialization?

Question

I was doing some comparison between BinaryFormatter and protobuf-net serializer and was quite pleased with what I found, but what was strange is that protobuf-net m

Answer 1

At least the c++ library does support writing to and from compressed streams:

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/protobuf/io/gzip_stream.h

I'm not sure though if that has been ported to the .Net implementation.