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It's no secret and no surprise that Protobuf in Python is slower than its Java and C++ counterparts, here's the official benchmarks. However if you look at those benchmarks there is what appears to be a secret, at least as far as the documentation goes, in the benchmarks it goes by the column header: "C++-generated-code".