On 1/1/07, Gunter Winkler <guwi17@gmx.de> wrote:
Why is serialization of ublas vectors and matrices so important? In
numerical applications the matrices usually are computed from a small
set of input data, used for some computations and finally discarded.
well, for one, there are many "big" applications where you need to checkpoint those data, .i.e output restart information. And you most certainly do not want to use formatted output such as:
Thus I am quite happy with the simple cout << M; cin >> M; methods
for vectors/matrices of order 10^6+.
That said, there are many other examples where serialization of even tinier ublas entities would really be very useful, though perhaps not as commonly needed. Outputting XML for web based applications would be one example ... Another one is that the new
Boost.MPI library (see boost HEAD) uses serialization interface for messaging.
ublas would be ready to go for parallel programing had it supported serialization...