Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] A few questions about boost::serialization

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-04 14:06:20

On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Tim St. Clair wrote:

> Just an FYI, boost is not a SAX parser like libxml2, so it will be  
> orders of magnitude faster then.  However you will loose some  
> flexibility if for some reason there is an error in your output  
> stream due to human interaction.  A SAX parser could move on and  
> ignore the error, it's kind of all or nothing with  
> boost::serialization.

That is also my understanding.

> Unless Matthias or Robert know something that I don't, as they are  
> the authors, while I'm just a avid user.

Actually, this is Robert's library. I am just responsible for some  
performance improvements.

Matthias